Third Announcement

Magnetofluid Modeling Workshop
19-20 August 2002

Dear colleagues,

Please find below the schedule for the upcoming workshop on magnetofluid modeling. This schedule and other workshop info can also be found on the Web site for the workshop at http://web.gat.com/workshops/mmw02/. The schedule on the Web will be updated as necessary.

There is a $75 fee for the workshop, to cover expenses. The fee can be paid by cash or check to Sherry Lopez, preferably before the workshop. Sorry, we CANNOT process credit cards. Please send payments to:

Sherry Lopez
Building 13, Room 309
General Atomics
P. O. Box 85608
San Diego, California 92186-5608

There will be a reception Monday evening graciously sponsored by General Atomics. Maps of the GA site will be made available on the Web site. The workshop and satellite meeting rooms are:

Monday and Tuesday

Magnetofluid Modeling Workshop
07-120

CMRS - 15-224
Morning - CEMM, 07-120
Afternoon - NIMROD, 07-120

Thursday and Friday

NIMROD, 07-120

F. Waelbroeck
Ming Chu
Scott Kruger

MEETING SCHEDULE
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Monday, 19 Aug 2002, AM:

8:00-8:10 Welcome and logistics information

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

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

10:10-10:30 Coffee Break

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

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

1:00-2:00 Lunch

Monday, 19 Aug 2002, PM:

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

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

3:40-4:00 Coffee break

Session IIB: Closures (J. Callen)

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

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Tuesday, 20 Aug 2002, AM

Sesion IIIA: Frameworks (Ming Chu)

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

Session IIIB: Edge Modeling (Ming Chu)

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

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

Session IIIC: Integrated Tokamak modeling (S. Jardin)

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

12:00-1:00 Lunch

Tuesday, 20 Aug 2002, PM

Session IVA: Reconnection (F. Waelbroeck)

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

3:40-4:00 Coffee break

Session IVB: Reconnection (A. Turnbull)

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

6:00-6:01 Closing