August 15-16,
2015
Tech-X
Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite A, Boulder, Colorado
Saturday, August 15
Computational
topics:
8:15-8:30 Welcoming
8:30-9:15 Carl
Sovinec—Free-boundary Grad-Shafranov
solves with NIMEQ
9:15-10:00 Valerie Izzo—
Running NIMROD with OMFIT
10:00-10:15 break
10:15-11:00 Jacob King—Scaling and other considerations for NIMROD on the Blue Gene Q
Physical
model development and analysis:
11:00-11:45 Jeong-Young
Ji (presented by Held)—Electron parallel closures for arbitrary ion
charge number
11:45-12:30 Eric Held—
Update
on drift-kinetic computations with NIMROD
12:30-1:30 lunch break
Applications:
1:30-2:15 Tom
Jenkins—Giant sawtooth modeling with PIC
closures: recent developments
2:15-3:00 Eric
Howell—Internal kink verification for giant sawtooth
study
3:00-3:45 Nick
Roberds—
Sawtooth
simulations for tokamaks and CTH
3:45-4:00 break
4:00-4:45 Valerie
Izzo—
Massive gas
injection simulations with rotation
4:45-5:30 Jacob
King—Update on edge harmonic oscillation studies
team dinner
Sunday, August 16
8:30-9:15 Ping
Zhu—Neoclassical toroidal viscosity induced by resonant magnetic
perturbation
9:15-10:00 Torrin Bechtel—Addition of Spitzer resistivity to
high-beta stellarator simulations
10:00-10:45 Joshua Sauppe—MHD and Hall dynamo drive in extended MHD computations of
plasma relaxation dynamics
10:45-11:00 break
11:00-11:45 John
O'Bryan—Simulations of gun-driven spheromaks
11:45-12:30 Kyle
Morgan—Finite beta HIT-SI simulations
12:30-1:30 lunch break
1:30-2:15 Aaron
Froese—
Characterization
of General Fusion's plasma devices
2:15-3:00 Kyle
Bunkers—Convergence and parameter
sensitivity checks for VDE
simulations
3:00-3:45 Alexei
Pankin—Modeling KSTAR discharges with ELMs
3:45+ Discussion