August 13-15, 2013, Boulder, Colorado
Tech-X Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Ave.
Tuesday, August 13
Computational topics:
9:00-9:45 Carl Sovinec— Spectral projections for interchange and numerical smoothing
9:45-10:30 Ben Sturdevant— Progress on sub-cycling and orbit averaging in kinetic MHD
hybrid simulations
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-11:15 Scott Kruger— INCITE proposal
Physical model development and analysis:
11:15-12:00 Eric Held— Improvements for continuum closures in NIMROD
12:00-12:45 Jeong-Young Ji— Implementation and application of the moment method
12:45-2:00 lunch break
2:00-2:45 Peter Norgaard— Reacting plasma/stationary neutral fluid simulations in
NIMROD, implementation and preliminary results
2:45-3:30 Andi Montgomery— Progress on toroidal resistive wall boundary conditions
3:30-4:00 discussion of computation and modeling progress
4:00-4:15 break
Applications:
4:15-5:30 Ping Zhu—Response to RMPs in DIII-D
team dinner
Wednesday, August 14
8:30-9:15 Jugal Chowdury— Progress on global tearing mode simulations in GEM
9:15-10:00 Jacob King—Update on drift tearing
10:00-10:45 Josh Sauppe (via ReadyTalk)—Drift-tearing benchmarking with a trigonometric
equilibrium profile
10:45-11:00 break
11:00-11:45 Valerie Izzo— Simulation of massive gas injection in DIII-D
11:45-12:30 Simon Woodruff, James Stuber, and Sam Schetterer (via ReadyTalk)— Extended
MHD simulations for application to ITER disruption mitigation techniques
12:30+ lunch break and team-building activity
Thursday, August 15
8:45-9:30 discussion of disruption modeling and PPPL workshop (led by Dylan Brennan)
9:30-10:15 Jonathon Hebert— Modeling of the current ramp phase of a CTH discharge (movie)
10:15-10:25 break
10:25-11:10 John O'Bryan (via ReadyTalk)— Update on Pegasus current-injection modeling
11:10-11:55 Bick Hooper (via ReadyTalk)— Modeling for TCHI in NSTX
11:55-12:15 discussion of application needs