13^th EU-US TTF workshop

1^st EFDA Transport Topical Group Meeting

Monday, September 1 – Thursday September 4 2008

Programme, updated 2008-09-24

Monday, September 1 2008

8:15 – 9:00			Registration, Coffee
9:00 – 9:10		V. Naulin J. Connor C. Hidalgo	Opening
	Chair: Arthur Peeters		Core heat and particle transport
9:10 – 9:20		A. Peeters	Introduction
9:20 - 10:00	I1	A. Bottino	Global nonlinear simulations of microinstabilities in tokamaks
10:00 – 10:20	O1	Y. Camenen	Effect of the Coriolis drift on turbulent cross-field transport in tokamak plasmas
10.20 – 10:40	O2	P. Mantica	Experimental Study of the Ion Critical Gradient Length and Stiffness Level and the Impact of Rotational Shear in JET
10:40 – 11:10			Coffee Break (registration)
11:10 – 11:30	O3	K.W. Gentle	A Test of Velocity Shear Stabilization of Turbulence
11:30 – 11:50	O4	R. Sanchez	On the nature of transport across sheared zonal flows in electrostatic ion-temperature-gradient gyrokinetic turbulence simulations
11:50 – 12:10	O5	D.R. Hatch	Nonlinear Excitation of Damped Eigenmodes in Microturbulence Simulations
12:20 - 13:30			Lunch
13:30 – 14:10	I2	C. Holland	Recent Progress in Validating Simulations of Plasma Turbulence
14:10 – 14:30	O6	A. Casati	Turbulence experimental measurements versus nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations
14:30 – 14:50	O7	N. Tamura	Dynamic behavior of nonlocally-coupled ion transport in toroidal plasmas
14:50 – 15:10	O8	W.W. Lee	Multiscale Properties of Ion Temperature Gradient Drift Turbulence
15:10 - 15:30			Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30			Poster session I : P-1 – P-29
16:30 – 16:50	O9	T. Görler	Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of coupled ITG/TEM and ETG turbulence
16:50 – 17:10	O10	D.L. Brower	Measurements of Stochastic Magnetic Field Driven Particle Flux in MST
17:10 – 17:40			Summary/Discussion Topic 1
17:45 – 19:00			Get-together beer/Reception

Tuesday, September 2 2008

	Chair: T. Tala		Core and edge momentum transport
9:00 – 9:10		T. Tala	Introduction
9:10 – 9:50	I3	W.M. Solomon	Investigation of Momentum Transport in Tokamaks
9:50 –10:10	O12	T.S. Hahm	Roles of Curvature Driven Momentum Pinch and Residual Stress in Intrinsic Rotation
10:10 –10:30	O13	I. Holod Presented by Ö.D. Gürcan	Gyrokinetic particle simulations of toroidal momentum transport in tokamak
10:30 - 11:00			Coffee break
11:00 –11:20	O14	S.M. Kaye	Momentum Transport in Electron-Dominated Spherical Torus Plasmas
11:20 –11:40	O15	G. Tardini	Angular momentum studies with NBI modulation in JET
11:40 –12:00	O16	Ö.D. Gürcan	Dynamics of ion poloidal rotation and its role on intrinsic toroidal rotation
12:00 – 12:20	O31	P.H. Diamond Presented by T.S. Hahm	A Mechanism for Edge-Core Coupling on How SOL Flows Influence Intrinsic Rotation and the L-H Transition
12:20 - 13:30			Lunch
13:30 – 14:10	I4	A. Peeters	Toroidal momentum transport in a tokamak due to small scale instabilities
14:10 –14:30	O17	Y. Andrew	Experimental study of the edge radial electric field in JET L-mode and H-mode plasmas
14:30– 14:50	O18	J.E. Rice	Counter-current Rotation and ITB Formation in Alcator C-Mod LHCD Plasmas
14:50 - 15:10	O19	B. Labit	Correlation between toroidal rotation and density blobs in the TORPEX magnetized plasmas
15:10 – 15:30			Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30			Poster session I : P-1 – P-29
16:30 – 17:00			Summary/Discussion Topic 2
17:00 – 19:00		Carlos Hidalgo	The European TTG: Discussions and presentation

Wednesday, September 3 2008

	Chair: A. Kirk		Edge and SOL transport physics
9:00 – 9:10		A. Kirk	Introduction
9:10 – 9:50	I5	A.W. Leonard	Pedestal Physics/Models and Comparison with Experimental Results
9:50 –10:10	O20	T. Ribeiro	Gyrofluid turbulence simulations near the X-point: drift wave vs. Interchange turbulence
10:10 –10:30	O21	S.H. Muller	Fast-camera imaging on linear devices for the validation of numerical simulations
10:30 - 11:00			Coffee break
11:00 –11:20	O22	P.N. Guzdar	Parametric excitation of GAMs by electron drift and ion temperature gradient modes in finite β tokamak plasmas*.
11:20 –11:40	O23	C. Silva	Experimental evidence of local turbulent transport regulation by long-range correlations in the ISTTOK edge plasma
11:40 –12:00	O24	B. Scott	Ion Temperature Effects in Electromagnetic, Transcollisional Gyrokinetic Computations of Edge Turbulence
12:00– 12:20	O25	D. Tskhakaya	Kinetic study of parallel transport in the ITER Scrape-off Layer
12:20 - 13:30			Lunch
13:30 – 14:10	I6	E. Nardon	ELM control by resonant magnetic perturbations (review)
14:10 - 14:30	O26	P. Gohil	H-mode Power Threshold for EC and NBI Heated Discharges in DIII-D and Their Dependence on the Input Torque
14:30 - 14:50	O27	W. M. Stacey	Edge pedestal structure and transport interpretation
14:50 – 15:10			Coffee break
15:10 – 16:10			Poster session II : P-30 – P-54
16:10 – 16:40			Summary/Discussion Topic 3
17:30 - open			Excursion and Dinner, Departure from IDA conference center 17:30!

Thursday, September 4 2008

	Chair: A. Fasoli		MHD and fast particles interaction with transport
9:00 – 9:10		A. Fasoli	Introduction
9:10 – 9:50	I7	W.W. Heidbrink	Recent Measurements of Fast-ion Transport by Alfv´en Waves and Electrostatic Turbulence
9:50 –10:10	O27	C. Angioni	Gyrokinetic simulations of alpha particle transport and consequences on ITER transport modelling
10:10 –10:30	O28	F. Jenko	Mechanism of turbulent fast particle transport in 3D tokamak microturbulence
10:30 –10:50	O29	F. Nabais	Fast ion losses by Alfvén eigenmodes and fishbones in JET
10:50 - 11:10			Coffee break
11:10 –12:20			Poster session II : P-30 – P-54
12:20 - 13:30			Lunch
13:30 – 14:00			Summary/Discussion Topic 4
14:00 – 14:30			Free Discussion and Coffee, Closing