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Agenda for FY-2002 NSTX Research Forum

Thursday, November 29



8:30 - 12:30 Experimental Task Group Breakout Sessions II

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Transport (Darrow, Stutman) Auditorium

Experimental Test of Key Microstability Parameters Bourdelle

Comparison of Beam Ion Loss Measurement Methods and Modeling Darrow

Collaborations on Codes for Analysis of NPA Measurements on NSTX Medley

Anomalous Ion Heating as a Function of Beam Voltage and Toroidal Field Gates

Documentation of Power Balance with and without CAE Modes Fredrickson

H-mode Power Threshold Studies Bush

Cross Machine comparisons of H-modes on NSTX, MAST, and DIII-D Bush

Proposal to Characterize Plasma Edge During H-mode Kubota

Perturbative Transport with the USXR System Stutman

Cross-comparison of Long Wavelength Turbulence Characteristics in NSTX, DIII-D and ET Peebles

Imaging of edge plasma turbulence associated with H-mode, density limit, and beta limits Zweben

Edge Biasing Effects on Plasma Stability and Confinement Zweben

Intra-machine Aspect Ratio Scaling of Energy Confinement... Kaye

Density Limit Mechanisms in Neutral beam heated Discharges Maingi

Verification of Electron Temperature Measurements in NSTX Bitter

Characterization of HHFW-driven H-modes LeBlanc

Edge Turbulence and Transport Boedo

Use of Finite Larmor Radius Codes for NSTX Fast Ion Analysis Redi

Group Discussion of Priorities




Coaxial Helicity Injection (Raman, Mueller) B-318

Get to 500 kA/flux Closure Assessment Raman

CHI Mode Activity Characterization Nelson

CHI Equilibrium Reconstruction using ESC Zakharov

Initiate Feedback Control Gates

Improvements to "OH + CHI" Mueller

Planned Modifications to EFIT Schaffer

IDS Measurements on NSTX Nagata

Initial 3-D MHD Simulations of CHI Tang

Discusssions on Feedback Control Nelson

Feedback Control of the Absorber Poloidal Field Raman

Study of CHI Current Drive Physics using a Dynamo Probe Ji

Group Discussion of Priorities



12:30 - 1:30
- Lunch -




1:30 - 5:30 Experimental Task Group Breakout Sessions III

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Integrated Scenario Development (Gates, Sabbagh) Auditorium

Integrated scenario development goals/issues Gates

Control system development Gates

rtEFIT plans and progress Ferron

Using TSC for integrated scenario modeling Jardin
15 min.
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Combined H-Mode/ITBscenario development Bush

HHFW heating during the current ramp-up Menard

Future research on solenoid-free inductive start-uin Globus-M Menard

Improved RFcoupling with NBI LeBlanc

Long pulse scenarios with HHFW current drivephasing Wilson

Comparison H-modes fueled from the low field andhigh field side. Maingi

Dependence of Resistive Wall Sytabilization on Equillibrium Configuration Paoletti

Browsing NSTX/Globus-M Databases and Performing EFIT Reconstructions on a PC Detch


Discussion


Group Discussion of Priorities


1:30 - 5:30 Boundary Physics (Kugel, Bush) B318
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Heat Flux

Heat Flux Scaling Maingi

Fast Probe Experiment Boedo

Edge Biasing Effects on Plasma Stability, Confinement, etc Zweben

Te and ne Measurements in Edge Turbulence Plasmas by Helium Spectroscopy Mukhin

Plasma Fuelling with TMB Kugel

Core Fueling and Scrape-Off Layer Properties of NSTX Soukhanovskii

Neutral Gas Beam Injector for Improved Fueling and Plasma Diagnostics Soukhanovskii

Flexible Fueling System for NSTX High Density Studies Baylor

CT Fueling for Enhancement of NSTX Discharges Raman

Divertor Bolometer XP Paul

Effect of 350°C Helium Bakeout on NSTX Performance Skinner

Deposition Measurements with a Quartz Crystal Oscillator. Skinner
15 min.
- Break -


Group Discussion of Priorities




5:30 - 6:30 ET leader discussion: Gaps, overlap Auditorium

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Auditorium
8:30 - 12:00 ET summary of breakout sessions (break from 10:00 - 10:30)
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ISD, MHD, Transport, HHFW, CHI, Boundary
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20 minutes + 10 discussion;
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