Magnetofluid Modeling Workshop

Agenda


Monday morning, 19 August 2002

8:00am - 8:10am Welcome and logistics information

Session IA: Numerical methods: new developments (A. Glasser)

8:10am - 9:10am D. Keyes (Old Dominion U.): "Implicit nonlinear solvers"
9:10am - 9:40am L. Chacon (LANL): "Algorithmic developments of Newton-Krylov methods in extended MHD"
9:40am - 10:10am X. Tang (LANL): "Parallel Newton-Krylov MHD code with spectral elements."

10:10am - 10:30am Coffee Break

Session IB: Numerical methods: new developments (S. Kruger)

10:30am - 11:00am C. Sovinec (U. Wisc): "NIMROD and the application of conforming finite elements to nonlinear MFE simulations"
11:00am - 11:30am K. Germaschewski (U. Iowa): "Magnetic Reconnection Code: a massively parallel Hall MHD code with adaptive mesh refinement"
11:30am - 12:00n R. Samtaney (PPPL): "Development of an unsplit MHD code with adaptive mesh refinement"
12:00n - 12:30pm F. Cattaneo (U. Chicago): "Magnetic field generation in convective magneto-fluids with small Prandtl number."
12:30pm - 1:00pm Discussion (D. Schnack)

1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch

Monday afternoon, 19 August 2002

Session IIA: Multi-fluid modeling (C. Hegna)

2:00pm - 2:40pm H. Strauss: "M3D: Resistive MHD, Two Fluid, and Hybrid Simulations"
2:40pm - 3:10pm J. Callen: "Hybrid MHD Modeling of the Dynamic Electrical Conductivity Response in a Bumpy Cylinder Magnetic Field"
3:10pm - 3:40pm S. Parker: "A fully kinetic model in the extended MHD context that keeps the two very good MHD approximations"

3:40pm - 4:00pm Coffee break

Session IIB: Closures (J. Callen)

4:00pm - 4:40pm F. Hinton (GA): "Reduced equations for electromagnetic turbulence in tokamaks"
4:40pm - 5:10pm E. Held: "The Derivation of General Neoclassical Closures."
5:10pm - 5:30pm Discussion (C. Hegna)

Tuesday morning, 20 August 2002

Session IIIA: Frameworks (Ming Chu)

8:00am - 8:30am A. Siegel (U. Chicago): "FLASH Framework and the Magnetic Reconnection Code"
8:30am - 9:00am A. Aydemir (IFS): "A Computational Framework for magnetofluid and kinetic calculations" (PDF file)
A. Aydemir (IFS): "A Computational Framework for magnetofluid and kinetic calculations" (PowerPoint file)

Session IIIB: Edge modeling (Ming Chu)

9:00am - 9:30am P. Snyder (GA): "ELMs and the H-mode Pedestal: MHD modeling progress and issues"
9:30am - 10:00am X. Xu (LLNL): "Turbulent transport in the tokamak edge region"

10:00am - 10:20am Coffee Break

Session IIIC: Integrated tokamak modeling (S. Jardin)

10:20am - 11:00am T. Hender (UKAEA): "MHD modeling challenges on JET and MAST."
11:00am - 11:30am J. Dahlberg: "The Integrated Fusion Simulation"
11:30am - 12:00n Discussion (S. Jardin)

12:00n - 1:00pm Lunch

Tuesday afternoon, 20 August 2002

Session IVA: Reconnection (F. Waelbroeck)

1:00pm - 1:40pm A. Bhattacharjee (U. Iowa): "Magnetic Reconnection: From Fusion to Astrophysics"
1:40pm - 2:10pm J. Finn (LANL): "Application of Newton-Krylov methods to reconnection physics."
2:10pm - 3:40pm P. Watson (IFS): "Magnetic reconnection solutions in 2D and 3D"

3:40pm - 4:00pm Coffee break

Session IVB: Reconnection (A. Turnbull)

4:00pm - 4:30pm J. Breslau: "Simulation of m=1 modes in Current Hole and Sawtoothing discharges"
4:30pm - 5:00pm R. Fitzpatrick (IFS): "A numerical investigation of forced reconnection in the Taylor model."
5:00pm - 5:30pm D. Brennan (GA): "Comprehensive modeling of NTM seeding by sawteeth in a DIII-D discharge"
5:30pm - 6:00pm Discussion (F. Waelbroeck)

6:00pm - 6:01pm Closing


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