Lecture Hall
Preview Talks
8:45 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
| 8:30 a.m. | Paul Terry | Welcome |
| 8:45 a.m.–10:10 a.m. | Xavier Garbet | Magnetic Fluctuations and Transport |
| 10:10 a.m.–10:35 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:35 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Francois Ryter | Electron Thermal Transport: an Experimental perspective |
| 12:00 p.m. –1:00 p.m. | Ellen Zweibel | Magnetic Fields in Galaxies |
| 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 2:30 p.m.–3:55 p.m. | George Tynan | Towards Obtaining a Predictive Capability for Transport |
| 3:55 p.m.–4:20 p.m. | Break | |
| 4:20 p.m.–5:45 p.m. | Mickey Wade | Particle Transport |
| 6:00 p.m. | Reception |
Thursday Morning, April 3, 2003
8:30 a.m. – 12 noon
| Core Transport
General Transport I |
H-Mode/Pedestal/Edge
Experiment I |
| C. Angioni: Density peaking, anomalous pinch, and collisionality in ASDEX Upgrade plasmas | M. Gilmore: Changes in Edge Turbulence with rho-star in NSTX |
| X. Garbet: Particle transport in JET plasmas | L. Schmitz: Observation of transport barrier formation in Ohmic and ICRF heated plasmas in the Electric Tokamak |
| G. Fiksel: Toroidal and parallel momentum transport in RFP during reconnection | A. Pigarov: Analysis of non-diffusive transport and SOL recycling with edge fluid code |
| Y. Sarazin: Role of large structures in trapped ion turbulence | G. Antar: Universality of intermittent convective transport in the SOL |
| Break | |
| General Transport II | Theory and modeling I |
| T. Hoang: Evidence of anomalous inward pinch in full non-inductive plasmas | P.H. Diamond: Shear flow effects on the cross phase reconsidered |
| D, del Castillo Negrete: Nonlocal diffusion: a fractional diffusion approach | E.-J. Kim: Zonal flows and transient dynamics of the L-H transition |
| M. Redi Calculations of Gyrokinetic microturbulence and transport in NSTX and Alcator C-Mod | P. Guzdar: High b L-H transition theory |
| D. Ross: Electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations | A. Kritz: Advances in integrated modeling of H mode plasmas |
Lunch
Thursday Afternoon, April 3, 2003
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
POSTER SESSION
| 1 | D. Ross | Electromagnetic Gyrokinetic Simulations |
| 2 | J.F. Artaud | Transport Properties of Steady-State Long Discharges on Tore Supra |
| 3 | T. Hoang | Role of Current Density Profile on Drift Wave Stability in Electron Thermal Barrier Experiments on Tore Supra |
| 4 | P. Phillips | Temperature Scale Lengths and ETG Models for C-Mod |
| 5 | J.E. Kinsey | Renormalized GLF23 Transport Model |
| 6 | S. Parker | Characteristics and Features of Electromagnetic Microturbulence with Kinetic Electrons |
| 7 | L. Frassinetti | Magnetic and SXR Fluctuation Measurements in the Madison Symmetric Torus Device |
| 9 | R. Bravenec | Gyrokinetic Simulation of DIII-D Discharges with Modulated Electron Heating |
| 10 | E. Doyle | Tests of Transport Models Using Multi-Machine Data from the International ITB Database |
| 11 | B. Chapman | Momentum Transport in MST due to Tearing-Mode-Induced Eddy Currents in the Conducting Shell |
| 12 | D. Baker | A Perturbation Solution to the Drift Kinetic Equation Yields Pinch Type Fluxes from the Circulating Electrons |
| 13 | J. DeBoo | Comparison of Critical Values of R/LTe for ETG Modes Based on an Analytic Expression with GKS Simulations of DIII-D Discharges |
| 14 | A. Peeters | GS2 Linear Simulations to Study Electron Heat Transport under ASDEX Upgrade |
| 15 | P. Schoch | Nonlinear Coupling between a GAM Zonal Flow and Broadband Fluctuations on TEXT |
| 16 | O. Gurcan | Whitham Modulations of the ETG Turbulence |
| 17 | D. Spong | Transport Physics Issues of Low Aspect Ratio Stellarators |
| 18 | W. Ding | Measurement of Core Magnetic Fluctuations and Transport in High Temperature Plasmas |
| 19 | J. Rice | Observations of Anomalous Momentum Transport in Alcator C-Mod |
| 20 | R. Woodward | Characterizing System Dynamics Through R/S Analysis of Very Long Time Series |
| 21 | D. Newman | Formation of Electron Transport Barriers |
| 22 | M. Greenwald | The National Fusion Collaboratory |
| 23 | M. McGrath | TORPEX:A New Experiment |
| 24 | D. DenHartog | Fast Thomson Scattering Diagnostic for Magnetic Fusion Research |
| 25 | W. Soloman | Structure of Fluctuation Driven Flux in the Presence of Zonal Flows in the H-1 Heliac |
| 26 | Y. Huang | Self-Organized Criticality Processes in the HL-1M Tokamak |
| 27 | I. Gruzinov | Transport Bifurcation in Bi-Stable Diffusive Cellular Automata |
| 28 | M. Sampsell | BES and ECE Measurements of the Quasi-Coherent Mode on Alcator C-Mod |
| 29 | M. Malkov | Analytic theory of L-H Transition for Simple Model of Coupled Particle and Heat Fluxes |
| 30 | R. Maqueda | Edge Turbulence in NSTX: H vs. L Differences |
| 31 | R. Maingi | Effect of Fueling Location on H Modes in NSTX |
| 32 | Y. Nishimura | Effects of Drift Wave Turbulence on Tokamak Divertor Transport |
| 33 | C. Figarella | Control of Long Range Turbulent Transport with Biasing in the Tokamak SOL |
| 34 | J.L. Terry | Turbulence in the Outboard and Inboard Scape-Off Layers of Alcator C-Mod |
| 35 | G. Antar | Nonlocal k-Space Interactions and the Rare Existence of Coherent Structures in the Tokamak Edge Plasma |
| 36 | T. Biewer | Edge impurity Ion Velocity and Temperature Measurements in the NSTX |
| 37 | R. Moyer | Prospects for Pedestal Control with Edge Resonant Magnetic Perturbations |
| 38 | S. Gerhardt | Measurements and Modeling of Electrode Induced Plasma Flows in the HSX |
Break
Working Group Sessions
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Joint Session: Core Transport and H-mode / Pedestal / Edge
| U. Stroth | Detection of Reynolds stress as a driving mechanism of zonal flows and GAMs |
| T. Carter | Study of intermittent turbulence and coherent structures in LAPD and ET |
| J. Rice | Observations of anomalous momentum transport Alcator C-Mod |
| S. Gerhardt: | Measurements and modeling of electrode-induced plasma flows in HSX |
| S. Zweben | High speed imaging of edge turbulence in NSTX |
| M. Burin | Results from the controlled shear decorrelation experiment |
| R. Gatto | A comparison of nonlinear damping and shearing in zonal flow reduction of turbulence |
Friday Morning, April 4, 2003
8:30 a.m. – 12 noon
| Core TransportGeneral Transport III | H-mode / Pedestal / EdgeExperiment II |
| B. LeBlanc: Confinement in Auxiliary heated NSTX discharges | D. Mossesian: Localized dimensionless identity method as a tool for studying H-mode pedestal |
| R. Woodward Characterizing system dynamics through R/S analysis of very long time series | T. Biewer: Edge impurity ion velocity and temperature measurements in the NSTX |
| G. Hammett Cross-validation, jackknife estimates of statistical uncertainties in empirical scalings | K.H. Burrell Edge harmonic oscillations in Edge harmonic oscillations in quiescent H-mode discharges in DIII-D |
| Break | |
| ITB / Control | Theory and modeling II |
| C. Fiore: Progress in Alcator C-Mod internal transport barrier studies | X. Xu: Parametric scaling of the density limit in tokamak plasmas |
| J. Myra: Nonlinear radio-frequency generation of sheared flows | C.S. Chang: Monte Carlo simulation of edge pedestal and Er layer formation including neutral particles and anomalous transport |
| C. Greenfield Physics requirements and results for transport control in advanced tokamaks | R. Sanchez: On the role of diffusive transport in triggering ELMs: a sandpile perspective |
| C. Bourdelle Impact of alpha on the microstability of internal transport barriers | J. Lönnroth Predictive transport modeling with theory-based and semi-empirical models for different ELMy H-Mode scenarios |
LUNCH
Friday Afternoon, April 4, 2003
1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
| Core TransportElectron Transport | H-mode / Pedestal / EdgeHow to Advance Pedestal Understanding |
| D. Stutman: Observations of electron transport in beam-heated NSTX | R. Groebner: Physics requirements for understanding the H-mode pedestal |
| K. Gentle Measurement of electron transport by modulated ECH | G. Staebler The challenge of transport in the trans separatrix region |
| W. Horton: Electron transport and critical gradient in Tore Supra | D. Mossesian Measuring particle sources |
| C. Holland Current issues in ETG turbulence | R. Moyer Prospects for pedestal control with edge resonant magnetic perturbations |
| L. Marelli: Investigation of magnetic field topology and particle transport in the RFP” | |
| W. Ding: Measurement of core magnetic fluctuations and transport in high temperature plasmas | |
| Break | |
| Discussion | Discussion of Future plans |
Saturday, April 5, 2003
Hall of Ideas E & F
Summary Talks
9:00 a.m. – 12 noon
| 9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. | Rich Groebner | H mode / Pedestal / Edge |
| 9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m | David Newman | Core Transport |
| 10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m | Break | |
| 10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m | Ken Gentle | Transient Transport |
| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m | Paul Terry | Status Report |