August 17-19, 2017
Tech-X Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Ave., Suite A
Boulder, Colorado
Thursday, August 17
Computational topics:
8:25-8:30 Welcoming
8:30-9:15 Carl Sovinec—Review of first-order least-squares investigations for NIMROD
9:15-10:00 Tom Manteuffel—Two-fluid plasma modeling using the Darwin approximation
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 break
10:30-11:30 Jacob King—Vectorization and plans for NIMROD infrastructure work and
curvature-induced instability with flow; (simd TEST code)
11:30-12:15 Brian Cornille—High-order advection based remap of magnetic fields in an
arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian code; [Background on H(div) & H(curl)]
12:15-12:30 Discussion
12:30-1:45 lunch break
Physical model development and analysis:
1:45-2:30 Jeong-Young Ji—Updates on development of moment-based closures
2:30-3:15 Eric Held—Update on continuum closures
3:15-3:30 Discussion
3:30-3:45 break
Applications:
3:45-4:30 Ping Zhu—Kinetic-MHD simulations of energetic particle driven modes in
tokamaks
4:30-5:15 Matt Beidler—Nonlinear modeling of forced magnetic reconnection with
transient perturbations
5:15-5:30 Discussion
team dinner
Friday, August 18
8:30-9:15 Tom Jenkins—Development of a synthetic microwave imaging reflectometry
diagnostic
9:15-10:00 Daniel Barnes—Tibbar boundary conditions for NIMROD
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 break
10:30-11:15 Torrin Bechtel—Stellarator equilibrium beta limit studies and related
computations
11:15-11:45 Jacob Maddox—Checks on energy conservation and conversion during simulated
magnetic reconnection
11:45-12:00 Discussion
12:00-1:30 lunch break
1:30-5:00 team building
Saturday, August 19
9:00-9:45 Eric Howell—Simulations of Disruptions in CTH
9:45-10:30 Simon Woodruff—3D Resistive MHD Simulations of Formation, Compression,
and Acceleration of Compact Tori
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-11:30 Kyle Bunkers—Study of axisymmetric vertical displacement events
11:30-12:15 Carl Sovinec—Computation of vertical displacement events with asymmetric
instability
12:15-12:30 Discussion