The 13th International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices is organized by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). TechX Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences are co-sponsors. Like the twelve preceding workshops, this workshop addresses plasma theory of the edge region in magnetic confinement fusion devices. It will reflect the present status of the theory for the boundary layer of fusion plasmas. The emphasis will be on the development of theory and of appropriate numerical methods, with a secondary interest in self-consistent modeling of experimental data (including also empirical elements).
The following topics are intended to be covered by invited and contributed lectures:
Basic edge plasma theory
- Magnetic boundary structure including magnetic stochasticity
- Sheath effects
- Edge transport parallel and perpendicular to magnetic field
- Electric field effects
- Instabilities and turbulence
- Neutrals and multi-ion theories, radiation
- Plasma detachment including cold and dense buffer plasmas
- New edge-relevant numerical and computational methods
Models of special phenomena and edge control
- Hot spots, radiative cooling
- L-H transition, blobs, ELMs (including control), and pedestal structure
- Flow patterns, momentum transport, and impurity retention
- Biasing and shaping of targets
- Dusty effects
Integrated edge plasma modelling
- Kinetic and Monte Carlo codes
- Multi-fluid codes
- Effects of plasma edge/core coupling
- Validation of edge plasma theories
The workshop will consist of invited lectures, oral presentations and poster contributions. Contributed papers will be mainly presented as posters. It is recommended that orally presented papers are also accompanied by a poster.
Invited Lectures
| John Cary (TechX Corp., USA) |
"Integrated core-edge-wall simulations" | |
| Atsushi Fukuyama (Kyoto University, Japan) |
"Integrated modeling of core, edge and peripheral plasmas" | |
| Ilon Joseph (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) |
"Mitigating ELMs" | |
| Grisha Kagan (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) |
"Neoclassical theory of pedestal flows and its comparison with C-Mod measurements" | |
| Volker Naulin (Risø National Laboratory, Denmark) |
"Profiles and fluctuations in edge turbulence simulations" | |
| Sasha Pigarov (University of California San Diego, USA) |
"Physics of plasma-wall interactions" | |
| David Tskhakaya (Innsbruck University, Austria) |
"On recent massively parallelized PIC simulations of the SOL" | |
Participation and Language
The number of attendees of the workshop will be limited to 80. The workshop language is English.
Support
Partial support (airfare and/or lodging) will be provided for a small number of non-U.S. participants based on need and quality of proposed presentation. Interested individuals should submit a request indicating their need along with their abstract.
Visas
It is recommended that participants requiring U.S. visas submit their visa applications at least 6 months in advance. Participants requiring an invitation letter for their visa should request it by an email sent to pet-13@llnl.gov
Important Dates
| 11 May 2011 | Extended deadline for submission of abstracts | ||
| 10 June 2011 | Information to contributors | ||
| 1 August 2011 | Deadline for registration | ||
| 20 August 2011 | Deadline for hotel-room reservation | ||
| 19 September 2011 | Deadline for manuscripts | ||
| 19-21 September 2011 | Workshop |
Posters
All papers, including those presented orally, are allocated a poster presentation. The poster boards are 4 feet by 8 feet (1.2 by 2.4 meters). There will be two poster sessions, as detailed in the agenda.
Proceedings
The invited and accepted contributed papers will be included in the proceedings of the workshop and published in the journal "Contributions to Plasma Physics". All papers will be refereed by workshop attendees, so it is essential that authors adhere to the deadline for receipt of manuscripts. The maximum length is limited to 10 pages for invited papers, and to 5 pages for contributed papers. Authors should bring one paper copy to the meeting and submit a PDF file to pet-13@llnl.gov. Detailed instructions for the preparation of the manuscripts are available here."
Satellite Meeting
There will be a satellite workshop on the BOUT++ edge turbulence code Sept. 14-16 at LLNL. For further information contact X. Xu, xu2@llnl.gov.
International Scientific Committee
| J.A. Heikkinen (Chair) | VTT, Espoo, Finland | ||
| P.J. Catto | MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, USA | ||
| R.H. Cohen | LLNL, Livermore, USA | ||
| D.F. Düchs | MPG-IPP, Garching, Germany | ||
| Y.L. Igitkhanov | Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, IHM, Germany | ||
| D.Kh. Morozov | RRC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia | ||
| T. Takizuka | JAEA, Naka, Japan | ||
| Y. Tomita | NIFS, Toki, Japan |
Local Organizing Committee
| R.H. Cohen (Chairman) I. Massiatt (admin contact) |
Mailing address: R. H. Cohen or Irene Massiatt, L-637 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA 94551 |
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| I. Joseph | |||
| M. Umansky | |||
| X. Xu | |||