A Workshop at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton, NJ, USA - November 9-11th 2009 (Monday 8:00 AM to Wednesday 1:30 PM) PDFs of Workshop Talks Nov. 9th Monday morning 8:00-8:30 Registration 8:30 - 8:45 Michael Zarnstorff Opening remark and welcome Sawteeth and energetic particle driven mode control Chair: M. Okabayashi 8:45 - 9:35 S. Pinches Sawteeth control (invited) 9:35 - 10:25 R. White Stochastic transport due to low amplitude TAE modes in DIIID (invited) 10:25 - 10:45 Coffee 10:45 - 11:10 E. Fredrickson Fast ion loss & redistribution by MHD on NSTX 11:10 - 12:00 H. Berk TAE control (invited) 12:00 -12:10 Photo 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Nov. 9th Monday afternoon NTM control Chair: R. La Haye 1:00 - 1:50 M. Maraschek NTM control (invited) 1:50 -2:15 L. Frassinetti RMP effect on tearing mode dynamics: modeling and experimental results 2:15 - 2:40 B. Hennen Real-time control of tearing modes using a line-of-sight Electron Cyclotron Emission Diagnostic E. Schuster Extremum-Seeking Stabilization of Neoclassical Tearing Modes in Tokamak Plasmas 3:05 -3:30 F. Volpe Oblique-ECE-assisted aligned, modulated ECCD stabilization of NTMs at DIII-D 3:30 - 3:40 Coffee Disruption control Chair: J. Navratil 3:40 - 4:30 M. Lehnen Disruption control (invited) 4:30 - 4:55 H. Strauss Wall Force produced during Disruptions 4:55 - 5:45 M. Umansky Snowflake divertor configuration control (invited) 5:45 - 6:10 H. Reimerdes H-mode error field threshold 6:10-6:30 J. Berkery The Role of Kinetic Effects, Including Plasma Rotation and Energetic Particles, in Resistive Wall Mode Stability 6:30 End of session Nov. 10th Tuesday morning RWM control Chair: L. Marrelli 8:00 - 8:50 T. Bolzonella RFX-mod: RWM and equilibrium control (invited) 8:50 - 9:15 D. Maurer New HBT-EP Wall and Control Coil System Design and Future Experimental Plans 9:15 - 10:05 Y. In Requirements for active resistive wall mode (RWM) feedback control(invited) 10:05 -10:20 Coffee 10:20 - 11:10 Y. Liu RWM control code maturity (invited) 11:10 - 11:35 O. Katsuro-Hopkins Design of a Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian controller for resistive wall mode stabilization in NSTX 11:35 -12:00 A. Sen Outline of a Novel Control of Major Disruptions In ITER 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Nov. 10th Tuesday afternoon ELM control and Non axi-symmetric field effects (1) Chair: M. Takechi 1:00 - 1:50 M. Tokar ELM control (invited) 1:50 - 2:40 B. Dudson BOUT++ simulations of ELMs and RMPs (invited) 2:40 - 3:05 G. Matsunaga Interactions between MHD events in the JT-60U high-beta plasmas 3:05 - 3:15 Coffee (at room B318 on third floor) 3:15 - 4:05 A. Boozer 3D helical equilibrium control (invited) 4:05 - 4:30 R. Buttery Effect of 3d fields near the Tearing Beta Limit RFP mode control Chair: T. Strait 4:30 - 5:20 E. Olofsson Mode control of RFP (invited) 5:20 - 5:45 L. Marrelli Progresses in resonant modes control in RFX-mod 5:45 - 6:10 P. Piovesan Pseudo-decoupler approach to error-field correction in RFX-mod 6:10 End of session 7:00 - 9:00 Banquet ay Prospect House at Princeton University Campus Nov. 11th Wednesday morning ELM control and Non axi-symmetric field effects (2) Chair: R. Buttery 8:00 - 8:50 S. Gerhardt Studies of Resonant and Non-Resonant Error Fields in NSTX (invited) 8:50 - 9:40 R. Fitzpatrick Locked Magnetic Islands in Toroidally Flow Damped Tokamak Plasmas (invited) 9:40 - 10:05 M. Lanctot Measurement and model validation of three-dimensional tokamak equilibria 10:05 - 10:30 Luca Guazzotto Two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of time-dependent poloidal flow 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee RWM control (2) Chair: T. Bolzonella 11:15 - 11:40 S. Sabbagh The search for multiple RWM behavior at high normalized beta in NSTX 11:40 - 12:05 M. Takechi Design of RWM control on JT-60SA 12:05 - 12:30 J. Bialek The basics of multi mode VALEN 12:30 -12:55 L. Felipe Delgado-Aparicio SXR measurements of Resistive Wall Mode behavior in NSTX 12:55 T. Strait Report on ITPA MHD Stability TG Meeting 12:30 F. Volpe Discussion: theme and place for 2010 15th Active MHD Control workshop 13:10 Closing
PDFs of Workshop Talks Nov. 9th Monday morning 8:00-8:30 Registration 8:30 - 8:45 Michael Zarnstorff Opening remark and welcome Sawteeth and energetic particle driven mode control Chair: M. Okabayashi 8:45 - 9:35 S. Pinches Sawteeth control (invited) 9:35 - 10:25 R. White Stochastic transport due to low amplitude TAE modes in DIIID (invited) 10:25 - 10:45 Coffee 10:45 - 11:10 E. Fredrickson Fast ion loss & redistribution by MHD on NSTX 11:10 - 12:00 H. Berk TAE control (invited) 12:00 -12:10 Photo 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Nov. 9th Monday afternoon NTM control Chair: R. La Haye 1:00 - 1:50 M. Maraschek NTM control (invited) 1:50 -2:15 L. Frassinetti RMP effect on tearing mode dynamics: modeling and experimental results 2:15 - 2:40 B. Hennen Real-time control of tearing modes using a line-of-sight Electron Cyclotron Emission Diagnostic E. Schuster Extremum-Seeking Stabilization of Neoclassical Tearing Modes in Tokamak Plasmas 3:05 -3:30 F. Volpe Oblique-ECE-assisted aligned, modulated ECCD stabilization of NTMs at DIII-D 3:30 - 3:40 Coffee Disruption control Chair: J. Navratil 3:40 - 4:30 M. Lehnen Disruption control (invited) 4:30 - 4:55 H. Strauss Wall Force produced during Disruptions 4:55 - 5:45 M. Umansky Snowflake divertor configuration control (invited) 5:45 - 6:10 H. Reimerdes H-mode error field threshold 6:10-6:30 J. Berkery The Role of Kinetic Effects, Including Plasma Rotation and Energetic Particles, in Resistive Wall Mode Stability 6:30 End of session Nov. 10th Tuesday morning RWM control Chair: L. Marrelli 8:00 - 8:50 T. Bolzonella RFX-mod: RWM and equilibrium control (invited) 8:50 - 9:15 D. Maurer New HBT-EP Wall and Control Coil System Design and Future Experimental Plans 9:15 - 10:05 Y. In Requirements for active resistive wall mode (RWM) feedback control(invited) 10:05 -10:20 Coffee 10:20 - 11:10 Y. Liu RWM control code maturity (invited) 11:10 - 11:35 O. Katsuro-Hopkins Design of a Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian controller for resistive wall mode stabilization in NSTX 11:35 -12:00 A. Sen Outline of a Novel Control of Major Disruptions In ITER 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Nov. 10th Tuesday afternoon ELM control and Non axi-symmetric field effects (1) Chair: M. Takechi 1:00 - 1:50 M. Tokar ELM control (invited) 1:50 - 2:40 B. Dudson BOUT++ simulations of ELMs and RMPs (invited) 2:40 - 3:05 G. Matsunaga Interactions between MHD events in the JT-60U high-beta plasmas 3:05 - 3:15 Coffee (at room B318 on third floor) 3:15 - 4:05 A. Boozer 3D helical equilibrium control (invited) 4:05 - 4:30 R. Buttery Effect of 3d fields near the Tearing Beta Limit RFP mode control Chair: T. Strait 4:30 - 5:20 E. Olofsson Mode control of RFP (invited) 5:20 - 5:45 L. Marrelli Progresses in resonant modes control in RFX-mod 5:45 - 6:10 P. Piovesan Pseudo-decoupler approach to error-field correction in RFX-mod 6:10 End of session 7:00 - 9:00 Banquet ay Prospect House at Princeton University Campus Nov. 11th Wednesday morning ELM control and Non axi-symmetric field effects (2) Chair: R. Buttery 8:00 - 8:50 S. Gerhardt Studies of Resonant and Non-Resonant Error Fields in NSTX (invited) 8:50 - 9:40 R. Fitzpatrick Locked Magnetic Islands in Toroidally Flow Damped Tokamak Plasmas (invited) 9:40 - 10:05 M. Lanctot Measurement and model validation of three-dimensional tokamak equilibria 10:05 - 10:30 Luca Guazzotto Two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of time-dependent poloidal flow 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee RWM control (2) Chair: T. Bolzonella 11:15 - 11:40 S. Sabbagh The search for multiple RWM behavior at high normalized beta in NSTX 11:40 - 12:05 M. Takechi Design of RWM control on JT-60SA 12:05 - 12:30 J. Bialek The basics of multi mode VALEN 12:30 -12:55 L. Felipe Delgado-Aparicio SXR measurements of Resistive Wall Mode behavior in NSTX 12:55 T. Strait Report on ITPA MHD Stability TG Meeting 12:30 F. Volpe Discussion: theme and place for 2010 15th Active MHD Control workshop 13:10 Closing