| Monday: May 21, 2007 |
| 8:00 | Registration | |
| 8:30 | Introduction - news on ITPA | T Hender |
| Issues related to ITER Design Review |
| 8:45 | ITER Design Review |
T Hender |
| 9:00 | MHD issues arising in ITER Design Review |
A Sen |
| 9:30 | Short summary Pedestal Group consideration of ELM control coils |
T Osborne |
| 9:45 | Overview of USBPO analysis of integrated ELM/RWM/EF control coils for ITER |
J Menard |
| 10:30 | Coffee |
|
| 10:50 | RWM/ELM/EF control coil evaluation studies |
M Schaffer/
J Bialek |
| 11:30 | Evaluation of ITER vertical stability during start-up |
A Portone |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
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| 13.00 | Recent DIII-D Experiments Simulating the ITER Startup Scenario And Their Implications For Axisymmetric Control |
E Lazarus |
| 13.30 | ITER Disruption Guidelines |
M Sugihara |
| 14.00 | Requirements on a massive gas injection system in ITER |
J Welsey |
| 14.30 | Coffee |
|
| 15.00 | Discussion on other ITER Design Review items (e.g. rotation requirements in view of possible lower NBI energies ….) |
All |
| Locked modes and neo-classical toroidal viscosity |
| 16.30 | Scaling of Ohmic Tokamak Error-Field Penetration Thresholds in the Presence of Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity |
C Hegna |
| 16.50 | Improved modelling of plasma response to error fields in NSTX and DIII-D |
J Menard |
| 17.10 | Error sources and correction in DIII-D |
M Schaffer |
| 17.30 | Close | |
| 18.00-20.00 | Reception in GA cafeteria | All |
| Tuesday: May 22, 2007 |
| Issues related to ITER Design Review |
| 8.30 | Progress on the ITER Design Review |
D Campbell
(remote from
Cadarache) |
| 9.00 | Short summaries of work and plans on issues related to design review |
J Menard, and
others (TBD) |
| 9.30 | Discussion on Design Review Issues |
All (including
D Campbell) |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
|
| NTMs |
| 11.00 | NTM beta scaling in the hybrid regime | R La Haye |
| 11.20 | Effect of rotation on NTMs |
R Buttery |
| 11.40 | Flow effects on NTMs |
A Sen |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
|
| 13.00 | NTMs in JT-60U |
A Isayama |
| 13.20 | A closure scheme for modeling RF modifications to the fluid equations |
C Hegna |
| 13.40 | Flow shear and tearing stability in DIII-D |
R La Haye |
| RWMs |
| 14.00 | RWM stability and feedback with low momentum input in
DIII-D |
A Garofalo |
| 14.40 | RWM stability in JT-60U |
G. Matsunaga |
| 15.10 | Coffee |
|
| 15.50 | Recent error field and RWM physics results from NSTX |
J Menard/
S Sabbagh |
| 16.10 | Effect of velocity profile on RWM stability |
Y Liu |
| Disruptions |
| 16.30 | MHD simulations of disruption mitigation on DIII-D and Alcator C-Mod |
V Izzo |
| 17.00 | Disruption Database status and future plans |
J Wesley/
A Hyatt |
| 17.30 | Close |
|
| Wednesday: May 23, 2007 |
| Disruptions - Contd |
| 8.30 | Disruption Database status and future plans -contd | J Wesley/ A Hyatt |
| 9.15 | Guidelines for pre-disruption energy loss | V Riccardo |
| 9.30 | MGI studies in DIII-D |
T Jernigan |
| 9.50 | Disruption discussion |
All |
| 10.10 | Coffee |
|
| RWMs - contd |
| 10.40 | RWM code development and AUG RWM stabilisation plans |
S Guenter |
| 11.00 | Update on benchmarking of VALEN, MARS-F etc |
J Bialek/Y Liu |
| 11.20 | RWM rotation modelling in ITER |
J Bialek |
| 11.40 | RWM stabilization with 3D structures in ITER |
A Portone |
| 12.00 | Change in Mode Pattern Induced by Magnetic Feedback to the RWM |
M Chu |
| 12.20 | Lunch |
|
| 13.20 | Discussion on RWMs |
All |
| Sawteeth and fast particle |
| 14.00 | Role of interchange and internal kink modes in the sawtooth |
Ed Lazarus |
| 14.40 | Giant sawteeth and their interaction with fast ions |
B Heidbrink |
| 15.30 | Coffee |
|
| 16.00 | MHD instabilities and fast ions losses in AUG |
P Martin |
| 16.20 | Fast particle stabilisation of sawteeth |
T Hender (for I Chapman) |
| 16.40 | Discussion on joint ITPA/IEA experiments MDC-10 and 11 |
|
| 17.00 | Close |
|
| Thursday: May 24, 2007 |
| 9.00 | KSTAR and MHD Issues |
OJ Kwon |
| 9.20 | ITER issues related to MHG Topical Group |
Y Gribov |
| 9.40 |
Final discussion status of ITER Design Review Work |
All |
| 10.40 | Coffee |
|
| 11.00 Joint ITPA/IEA expts - status |
| MDC-1 | Disruption mitigation by massive gas jets |
|
| MDC-2 | Joint experiments on resistive wall mode physics |
T Hender |
| MDC-3 | Joint experiments on neoclassical tearing modes (including error field effects) |
R Buttery |
| MDC-4 | Neoclassical tearing mode physics – aspect ratio comparison | T Hender |
| MDC-5 | Comparison of sawtooth control methods for neoclassical tearing mode suppression |
T Hender |
| MDC-8 | Current drive prevention/stabilisation of NTMs |
|
| MDC-10 | Measurement of damping rate of intermediate toroidal mode number Alfvén Eigenmodes |
A Fasoli (presented by Hender) |
| MDC-11 | Fast Ion Losses and redistribution from local AEs |
|
| MDC-12 | Non-resonant Magnetic Braking |
T Hender |
| Closing session |
| Discuss Research Plan |
| Next meetings |
| AOB |
| End of meeting |
