Simulations of ICC Experiments by the PSI-Center

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Abstract

The Plasma Science and Innovation Center (PSI-Center - http://www.psicenter.org) assists collaborating innovative confinement concept (ICC) experiments with extended MHD simulations. Collaborators include the Bellan Plasma Group (Caltech), CTH (Auburn U), FRX-L (Los Alamos National Laboratory), HIT-SI (U Wash - UW), LDX (M.I.T.), MST \& Pegasus (U Wisc-Madison), PHD (UW), PFRC (PPPL), SSX (Swarthmore College), TCS (UW), and ZaP (UW). Modifications have been made to the NIMROD, HiFi, and PSI-Tet codes to specifically model these ICC experiments, including mesh generation/refinement, appropriate boundary conditions (external fields, insulating BCs, etc.), and kinetic and neutral particle interactions. Interfaces of these codes to the powerful 3-D visualization program, VisIt (http://www.llnl.gov/visit) have been developed and implemented. Results from these simulations, as well as an overview of the Interfacing Group status will be presented.

Authors

  • Brian Nelson

    • University of Washington
    • Psi Center, University of Washington

  • A.H. Glasser

  • T.R. Jarboe

  • C.C. Kim

  • G.J. Marklin

  • W. Lowrie

  • E.T. Meier

  • R.D. Milroy

  • U. Shumlak

    • University of Washington

  • C.R. Sovinec

  • J.B. O'Bryan

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • E. Held

  • J.-Y. Ji

    • Utah State University

  • V.S. Lukin

    • Naval Research Laboratory