16th International Conference on the
Numerical Simulation of Plasmas
and
US-Japan Workshop on Nonlinear Plasma
Simulation and Visualization
in cooperation with
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
and supported by
DOE
NASA/JPL
UCLA Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Holiday Inn Hotel
Goleta, CA
February 10 - 12, 1998
Monday, February 9
Registration and Reception 6:00 -9:00 pm
Tuesday, February 10
1A Tuesday Morning: Oral Session 1
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Presiding: J. C. Adam
8:30-8:40 Welcome and Announcements John Dawson
8:40-9:30 1A1. Sato -Simulation of Complexity
9:30-10:00 1A2. Dimits - Numerical Convergence of
Gyrokinetic Simulations of Ion-Temperature-Gradient Turbulence
10:00-10:30 1A3. Ryne - The D.O.E. Grand Challenge in Computational Accelerator
Physics
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 1A4. Vu - ASPEN: A Fully Kinetic, Two Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Code
for Simulating Parametric Instabilities in Laser-Produced Plasmas
11:20-11:40 1A5. Mori - Modeling Short-Pulse
Laser-Plasma Experiments using PIC Codes
11:40-12:00 1A6. Pukhov - 3D Relativistic Particle-In-Cell Code VLPL: Virtual Laser
Plasma Lab
12:00-12:20 1A7. Mark - Modeling Particle Accelerators
using C++ and the POOMA Framework
12:20-12:40 1A8. Nishihara - Parallelization of PPPM
Code and The Lyapunov Exponents in Phase Space
12:40-1:00 1A9. Verboncoeur -X00PIC: Progress in Object-Oriented Particle
Simulation
1B Tuesday Evening: Poster Session 1
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Refreshments provided
1B1. Hewett - The Dielectric Boundary Condition for the
Embedded Curved Boundary (ECB) Method
1B2. Mardahl - Progress in Parallelizing X00PIC
1B3. Spong - Scientific Visualization of
3-dimensional Optimized Stellarator Configurations
1B4. Brackbill - Particle-in-Cell Magnetohydrodynamics
1B5. Leboeuf - Full-Plasma Cross Section Landau Fluid
Calculations of Ion Temperature Gradient-Driven Turbulence in Tokomaks
1B6. Miura - Identification and Visualization of
Vortices in Turbulence
1B7. Peterkin - Moving Solid Materials with
Magnetic Fields
1B8. Assous / Segre' - A New PIC Scheme to Treat the Numerical Tcherenkov
Instability
1B9. Cai - Visualizing Magnetic Field Topology in the Magnetotail using TRISTAN
code
1B10. Coppa - Finite-Grid Instability in Non-Uniform
Grids; (to view Fig1 click here); (to view Fig2 click here)
1B11. Fijalkow - Vlasov Eulerian Simulations in 2
Dimensions; Destruction of BGK type Equilibrium by a Magnetic Field
1B12. Nelson - High Accuracy Electromagnetic Finite
Element Analysis
1B13. Maiorov (#1) - Modeling of Coulomb's Particles
Collisions in a Plasma
1B14. Shoucri (#1) - Charge Separation, Velocity Shear and Suppression of
Turbulence at a Plasma Edge in the Gyro-Kinetic Approximation
1B15. Turner - Kinetic-Fluid Calculation of Electron Heating in Inductive
Discharges
1B16. Kares - Applications of a 3D
Body-Fitted PIC Techniques to High Power Microwave Devices
1B17. Keidar - Numerical Calculation of Free Vacuum Arc Plasma Jet Expansion in
Curved Magnetic Field
1B18. Mason - Implicit Simulation of Intense Laser-Matter Interaction
1B19. Sanbonmatsu - Quasilinear-Zakharov Simulations
of Auroral Langmuir Turbulence
1B20. Sigov - Nonlinear Coherent Nature of Beam-Plasma Interaction in Open Vlasov
Systems: Revealing and Visualization
1B21. Sonnendrucker - The Semi-Lagrangian Method for the Resolution of Vlasov
Equations
1B22. Tzeng - Parallelized PIC Simulation Codes for
Modeling Laser-Plasma Interactions and Examples of their Results
Wednesday, February 11
2A Wednesday Morning: Oral Session 2
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Presiding: Jean-Noel Leboeuf
8:30-9:00 2A1. Cattaneo - Fully Nonlinear Simulations Of Dynamo Generation Of
Large Scale Magnetic Fields
9:00-9:30 2A2. Gombosi - High Performance
Three-Dimensional MHD Simulations of Space Plasmas with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
9:30-10:00 2A3. Lyster - Atmospheric Data Assimilation
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-10:40 2A4. Lee - Perturbative Particle Simulation of Intense nonneutal Beam
10:40-11:00 2A5. Schnack - An Overview of the Nimrod Code
11:00-11:20 2A6. Hayashi - Nonlinear Simulations of Pressure Driven
Plasma Relaxation Phenomena in Torodial Plasmas
11:20-11:40 2A7. Huba - A New 3D MHD Algorithm: The
Distribution Function Method
11:40-12:00 2A8. Naitou - Stabilization of the
Kinetic Internal Kink Mode by the Sheared Poloidal Flow
12:00-12:20 2A9. Horiuchi - Particle Simulation of Collisionless Driven
Reconnection
12:20-12:40 2A10. Knoll - A Multilevel Iterative Field
Solver for Implicit Plasma Simulation Codes
12:40- 13:00 Kageyama - Data
Visualization by a Virtual Reality System
2B Wednesday Afternoon: Poster Session 2
2:30pm - 5:00pm
2B1. Kueny - Embedded Curved Boundaries and Adaptive Mesh
Refinement
2B2. Levchenko - Simulation of super-large-size plasma physics Problems on Cheap
Computational Sytems Using.Local Schemes Taking into Account the Dependence Region
2B3. Sasser - Modified PIC Algorithm for Efficient
Multiprocessor Simulations
2B4. Batishchev (#1) - Kinetic Model of Plasmas
and Neutral Particles for Fusion Applications
2B5. Finn - Newton-Krylov Methods: Reduce MHD, Navier Stokes, and Nonneutral Plasma
Equilibria
2B6. Rambo - Spatial Differencing of Poloidal MHD for Axisymmetric Lagrangian
Simulation
2B7. Todo - Particle-MHD Hybrid Simulations of the Toroidal Alfven Eigenmode
2B8. Begue - Two-Dimensional Semi-Lagrangian Vlasor
Simulations of the Relativistic Modulational Instability
2B9. Couland - Parallelization of Semi-Lagrangian Vlasov Codes
2B10. Friedman - Toward Higher Order Particle Simulation
of Space-Charge-Dominated Beams
2B11. Jones - Improved Intra-Species Collision
Models for PIC Simulations
2B12. Lin - Global Gyrokinetic Simulation with General Geometry Equilibria
2B13. Maiorov (#2) - Simulation of a Coulomb Plasma by
the Many-Particle Method
2B14. Shoucri (#2) - A Method of Fractional Steps for the Solution of a
Foker-Planck Equation for the Study of Parallel Transport in the Scape-off Layer of TdeV
2B15. Bromley - Approximate Modeling of Cylindrical
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion Neutron Generator
2B16. Chance - Synthesized Vacuum Calculation in Toroidal
Geometry
2B17. Kawamura - Methods in Speeding Up PIC-MCC
Codes Applied to Rf Plasma Discharges
2B18. Lasinski - PIC Simulations of Hole-Boring for Fast-Ignitor Applications
2B19. Luginsland - Simulation of an Injection-Locked
Relativistic Klystron Oscillator
2B20. Nagatomo - Numerical Simulation of Laser Driven
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability by ILESTA-2D
2B21. Ren - Nonlinear Tearing Mode Study Using the "Almost Ideal
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)" Constraint
2B22. Still - Extending Laser-Plasma Interaction
Simulations with MPR-P3D
5:00 - 5:30 Business Meeting
6:30 - 9:30 Banquet (UCSB Faculty Center)
Presentation of Oscars by C. K. Birdsall
Speaker: Thomas Sterling, of
CalTech/JPL
Tom will talk about PetaFlop computing :
"An Improbable Approach to
Achieving the Impossible through the Unbelievable"
Thursday, February 12
3A Thursday Morning: Oral Session 3
8:30am - 12:45pm
Presiding: Dan Winske
8:30-9:00 3A1. Otani - Stranger
in a strange land: A plasma simulationist in the world of cardiac electrophysiology
9:00-9:20 3A2. Bateson - Grid and Particle Dynamics (GaPH) Algorithm
9:20-9:40 3A3. Lampe - Langevin/Monte Carlo Treatment of
Coulomb Collisions in PIC Simulations
9:40-10:00 3A4. Joyce - Quasineutral Particle Simulation of Magnetized Plasma
Discharge
10:00-10:20 3A5. Grote - New Methods in WARP,
a Particle-in-Cell code for Space-harge Dominated Beams
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:00 3A6. Wang - Particle Simulations for Ion Propulsion, an Overview
11:00-11:20 3A7. Mottez - A New Guiding Centre PIC Scheme for Electromagnetic
Highly Magnetized Plasma Simulation
11:20-11:40 3A8. Lapenta - Implicit Particle In Cell Simulation of Space Plasmas in
Three Dimensions
11:40-12:00 3A9. Lionello - Improved Semi-Implicit MHD Algorithm for Plasmas with
Large Flows
12:00-12:45 3A10. Keller - The Global Warming
Debate: The Heat is On
3B Thursday Afternoon: Poster Session 3
2:00pm - 4:30pm
3B1. Galkin - Application of
Unstructured Grid and Adaptive Grid techniques to 2D and 3D Elliptic Problems
3B2. Nelson - Moved to Tuesday (see poster 1B12)
3B3. Norton - Object-Oriented Plasma PIC
Simulation using Fortran 90 on Supercomputers
3B4. Batishchev (#2) - Unstructured Adaptive Grids
and Grid-Free Methods for Edge Plasmas
3B5. Jiang / Wu - A High Order WENO Finite Difference Scheme for
Magnetohydrodynamics
3B6. Rognlien - Algorithms and Results for a Parallelized, Fully-Implicit
Edge-Plasma Transport Code
3B7.Tarditi - Progress on TRIM, a 3D Pseudospectral Resistive MHD Code in Adaptive
Unstructured Triangular Mesh
3B8. Thomas - Ray Tracing in an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) Hydrodynamics
Code
3B9. Cadjan - Stochastic Method for the Simulation of
Plasma Kinetic with Coulomb Collisions
3B10. Cartwright - Nonlinear Hybrid Boltzman-PIC
Acceleration Scheme
3B11. Hinkle - Numerical Simulations of Stimulated
Brillouin Backscatter in the Presence of Transverse Plasma Flow
3B12. Subbarao - Computer Simulation of a
Cylindrical Laser Beam Self-focusing in a Plasma
3B13. Tsintsadze - Kinetic Formulation of Neutrino-Plasma Interactions
3B14. Vay - A New FDTD Scheme for the Wave
Equation. Application to Multiscale Electromagnetic Plasma Simulation
3B15. Abdallah - Simulation of the Satellite
Spectrum Produced in Plasma Focus Experiments
3B16. Ishiguro - Two-and-a-Half Dimensional Open
Boundary Particle Simulation of Current-Driven Electrostatic Ion-Cyclotron Instabilities
3B17. Kang - 1-D PIC Simulation of Localized Langmuir
Field Structures Induced by Sharp Density Gradients
3B18. Nishimura - Measurement of Magnetic Field
Line Stochasticity in Nonlinearly Evolving, Nonequilibrium Plasmas
3B19. Matthews - Ion Transport in
a Simulated Plasma Vortex
3B20. Winske- Simulating Dust Acoustic Waves
3B21. Demonstration: "Fresnel Diffraction Explorer"
Dean Dauger (UCLA Physics), who won the CIP Contest for innovative software in
physics education with this program, will demonstrate it.
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