Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna
Thematic Programme
GYROKINETICS FOR ITER II
Workshop
"Vlasov-Maxwell kinetics: theory, simulations and observations in space plasmas"
29 March -- 1 April 2011
Responsible Organiser: F. Califano (Pisa)
Information regarding this workshop can be found here.
Fusion Theory Working Group Meeting
3-17 April 2011
Responsible Organiser: A. Schekochihin (Oxford)
SOC: M. Barnes (Oxford), P. Catto (MIT), W. Dorland (Maryland), G. Hammett (Princeton), F. Parra (Oxford)
| WORKING GROUPS |
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If you know exactly what you are going to do, what is the point of doing it?
Pablo Picasso
Every line in your calculations ends with "=0". You are not making much progress!
Kate Hammett
Let's change the resolution on the Unknown.
Gabe Plunk
Pablo Picasso
Every line in your calculations ends with "=0". You are not making much progress!
Kate Hammett
Let's change the resolution on the Unknown.
Gabe Plunk
Invited Participants
[List under construction!]
Timetable[List under construction!]
| Name | Affiliation | Working Groups |
Wk
1 |
Wk
2 |
Seminar Title |
Background Reading |
Download |
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| 1 |
Ian Abel |
Oxford/Merton |
TT,EF |
arr 2 |
lv 18 |
TT: Fast particle transport in gyrokinetics |
blackboard |
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| 2 |
Alejandro Bańon Navarro |
ULB Brussels |
EF,NM |
10-15 |
NM/EF: Gyrokinetic Large Eddy Simulations |
arXiv:1104.2422 |
pdf, 2.2Mb |
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| 3 |
Michael
Barnes |
Oxford/ThPhys |
TT,SH, EF,NM |
arr 3 |
lv 15 |
1. TT: 1D transport modeling |
IAEA, THC/P4-01 (pdf) | pdf, 6.7Mb |
| 2. EF/TT: Critically balanced ITG turbulence and transport scalings | on request |
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| 4 |
Jessica Baumgaertel | Princeton |
ST,NM |
arr 3 |
lv 11 |
ST: Upgrades of GS2 for stellarators and initial gyrokinetic results |
pdf, 860kb |
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| 5 |
Riccardo Betti |
Princeton |
EG |
3-9 |
EG: MHD poloidal flow mechanism for pedestal formation |
pdf, 1.9Mb |
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| 6 |
Ivan Calvo | CIEMAT Madrid |
TT,SH,EG, ST,EF |
10-17 |
TT: Second-order gyrokinetics at long wavelengths: the tokamak radial electric field | PPCF 53, 045001 (2011) |
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| 7 |
Peter Catto | MIT |
EG,ST |
3-9 |
EG: Comparisons of theory for edge with experimental observations in Alcator C-Mod |
pdf, 3.7MB |
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| 8 |
Paul Dellar |
Oxford/Maths |
EF,SH,NM |
arr 2 |
lv 17 |
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| 9 |
Bill Dorland | Maryland |
TT,SH, EF,NM |
11-17 |
Extracurricular talk: Summary of the Fukushima Daiichi incident. |
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| 10 |
Tobias
Görler |
IPP
Garching |
TT,NM |
3-8 |
NM/TT: Finite-size effects in plasma microturbulence |
pdf, 3.9Mb |
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| 11 |
Greg Hammett | Princeton |
TT,EG, EF,NM |
arr 2 |
lv 14 |
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| 12 |
Edmund Highcock | Oxford/ThPhys |
TT,SH,NM |
arr 3 |
lv 17 |
TT/SH: Transport bifurcations (review) |
arXiv:1007.3390 PRL 105, 215003 (2010) PRL 106, 115004 (2011) |
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| 13 |
Anjor Kanekar |
Maryland |
TT,SH, EF,NM |
arr 3 |
lv 16 |
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| 14 |
Matt Landreman |
MIT |
EG,ST |
arr 2 |
lv 16 |
1. ST: Omnigenous stellarators (a tutorial) | arXiv:1102.2508 PPCF 53, 035016 (2011) PPCF 53, 015004 (2011) |
pdf, 440kb |
| 2. ST: The "monoenergetic approximation" |
pdf, 220kb |
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| 15 |
Nuno Loureiro |
IST Lisbon |
SH,EF, KR,NM |
arr 8 |
lv 15 |
KR: Plasmoid reconnection |
PRL 105, 235002 (2010) | on request |
| 16 |
Alfred Mallet |
Oxford/ThPhys |
EF |
arr 3 |
lv 17 |
AK/EF: Scalings and alignments in Alfvenic turbulence |
on request |
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| 17 |
Joseph Parker |
Oxford/Maths |
EF,SH,NM |
arr 3 |
lv 17 |
NM/EF: Parallel phase mixing and numerical schemes in Hermite space |
PPCF 35, 973 (1993) |
on request |
| 18 |
Felix
Parra |
Oxford/ThPhys |
TT,SH, EG,ST |
arr 3 |
lv 15 |
1. ST: New approach to stellarator MHD equilibria | blackboard |
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| 2. TT: Advances in the study of intrinsic rotation with flux-tube gyrokinetics. |
arXiv:1102.3717 arXiv:1102.4613 |
pdf, 980kb |
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| 19 |
Gabriel Plunk |
Maryland |
EF |
arr 3 |
lv 17 |
EF: Energy flows and generalized instability in turbulence with zonal flows |
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| 20 |
Alex
Schekochihin |
Oxford/ThPhys |
TT,SH, EF,KR |
arr 3 |
lv 17 |
SH: Subcritical ITG-PVG turbulence (linear theory of transient fluctuations) |
PPCF 52, 125001 (2010) |
blackboard |
| 21 |
Tomo Tatsuno | Maryland |
EF,NM |
lv 15 |
EF: Phase-space turbulence in 2D magnetized plasma using gyrokinetics (talk in the preceding workshop) |
arXiv:1007.4787 J. Plasma Fusion Res. SERIES 9, 509 (2010) PRL 103, 015003 (2009) |
pdf, 5.3Mb |
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| 22 |
Daniel Told |
IPP Garching |
EG,NM |
3-8 |
EG: Gyrokinetic studies of edge ETG turbulence using GENE |
pdf, 1.3Mb |
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| 23 |
Alessandro
Zocco |
Culham |
KR |
arr 3 |
lv 15 |
KR: Threshold of marginal stability of the drift-tearing mode: ion kinetic and diamagnetic stabilizations |
PoF 26, 2509 (1983) PoF 29, 3230 (1986) PFB 1, 364 (1989) |
blackboard |
WEEK 1
| Monday 4 April | Tuesday 5 April | Wednesday 6 April | Thursday 7 April | Friday 8 April | Saturday 9 April |
| 9:00 Coffee 9:30 Welcome |
9:30 Coffee |
9:30 Coffee |
9:30 Coffee |
9:30 Coffee |
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Edge
10:00 Catto10:30 Betti |
ITBs
10:00 Highcock11:00 Barnes-1 |
Numerical Methods
10:30 Told10:00 Görler
Edge |
Intrinsic rotation
10:00 Parra-2 |
Sheared turbulence
10:00 Schekochihin |
Alpha particles 11:00 Plunk10:00 Abel
Zonal flows |
| 12:30-14:15 Lunch |
12:30-14:15 Lunch | 12:30-14:15 Lunch (seminar room must be evacuated --- University has classes there at this time) |
12:30-14:15 Lunch (seminar room must be evacuated --- University has classes there at this time) |
12:30-14:15 Lunch | |
| 14:15 Coffee |
14:15 Coffee | 14:15 Coffee | 14:15 Coffee | 14:15 Coffee | |
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Stellarators
14:30 Landreman-1Numerical methods
15:30 AstroGK interestgroup meeting |
Stellarators
14:30 Baumgaertel |
Stellarators
14:30 Parra-1 |
Stellarators
14:30 Landreman-2 |
WEEK 2
| Sunday 10 April | Monday 11 April | Tuesday 12 April | Wednesday 13 April | Thursday 14 April | Friday 15 April |
| 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee | 9:30 Coffee |
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Reconnection
10:00 Loureiro |
Critical balances
10:00 Mallet11:00 Barnes-2 |
Numerical methods
10:00 Bańon |
Intrinsic rotation
10:00 Calvo |
Summary 10:00 Discussion
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| 12:30-14:15 Lunch | 12:30-14:15 Lunch | 12:30-14:15 Lunch (seminar room must be evacuated --- University has classes there at this time) |
12:30-14:15 Lunch (seminar room must be evacuated --- University has classes there at this time) |
12:30-14:15 Lunch | |
| 14:15 Coffee | 14:15 Coffee | 14:15 Coffee | 14:15 Coffee | 14:15 Coffee | |
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Numerical methods
14:30 Parker
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Reconnection 14:30 Zocco
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Extracurricular talk 14:30 Dorland
Numerical methods
17:00 General discussion
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Immediately after the Vienna meeting: "Fusion and Astrophysical Plasmas" (organised by Per Helander), 478th Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, 18-20 April, deadline March 4.
The workshop will be held in Nodrbergstr. 15 (follow directions to WPI)
Please contact Ms Doris Obermaier (doris.obermaier at univie dot ac dot at) to arrange accommodation
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