NumKin 2019

Program (preliminary)

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Monday, October 14th

08:15  Registration at IPP, Building D2, upper floor
08:50 Sonnendrücker, Eric
Introduction
09:10 Brizard, Alain
Symplectic gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell theory
09:45 Discussion
09:55 Negulescu, Claudia
Kinetic modelling and numerics of strongly magnetized tokamak plasmas with mass diparate particles. The electron Boltzmann relation.
10:30 Discussion
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Zoni, Edoardo
Gyrokinetic theory with polynomial transforms: a model for ions and electrons in maximal ordering
11:35 Discussion
11:45 Bostan, Mihai
Mathematical analysis for the transport of charged particles under strong curved magnetic field
12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch break                                          
     
14:00 Biancalani, Alessandro
Nonlinear PIC simulations of Alfven modes and turbulence
14:35 Discussion
14:45 Bösl, Mathias
      PICLS: a gyrokinetic full-f particle-in-cell code for open field line simulations
15:20 Discussion
15:30 Coffee break
15:50 Holderied, Florian
First steps towards hybrid drift-kinetic-MHD simulations using FEEC
16:25 Discussion
16:35 Rege, Alexandre
Some numerical results relating to the spectral decomposition of a linearized Vlasov equation in a uniform magnetic field
17:10 Discussion
  

Tuesday, October 15th

09:00 Helluy, Philippe
Kinetic over-relaxation and boundary conditions
09:35 Discussion
09:45 Warnecke, Sandra
On multi-species kinetic modeling of plasma
10:20 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 Tronko, Natalia
Edge gyrokinetic theory
11:25 Discussion
11:35 Méhats, Florian
Averaging for Vlasov and Vlasov-Poisson equations
12:10 Discussion
12:20 Lunch break                                 
     
14:00 Working group on gyrokinetic PIC codes and discussions in small groups
15:30 Coffee break
15:50 Working group on gyrokinetic theory and discussions in small groups
 
  

Wednesday, October 16th

09:00  Albert, Christopher          
Symplectic integration of guiding-center dynamics in non-canonical coordinates
09:35 Discussion
09:45 Kraus, Michael
Geometric Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluids and Plasmas
10:20 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 Perse, Benedikt
Geometric Particle-in-Cell Simulations of the Vlasov-Maxwell System in Curvilinear Coordinates
11:25 Discussion
11:35 Li, Yingzhe
Numerical simulations of Vlasov-Maxwell equations for laser plasma based on Poisson bracket
12:10 Discussion
12:20 Lunch break                                           
   Afternoon free
  
19:00 Social dinner at the "Garchinger Augustiner"
Freisinger Landstr. 4, 85748 Garching
  

Thursday, October 17th

09:00   Mehrenberger, Michel
Long time behaviour of semi-Lagrangian schemes
09:35 Discussion                                   
09:45 Massot, Josselin
Exponential methods for solving hyperbolic problems with application to kinetic equations
10:20 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 Yurova, Anna
Generalized Fourier-Hermite method for the Vlasov equation
11:25 Discussion
11:35 Campos-Pinto, Martin
On spectral geometric particle-in-cell methods
12:10 Discussion
12:20 Lunch break
     
14:00 Hirvijoki, Eero
Conservative finite-element method for the relativistic Coulomb collision operator
14:35 Discussion
14:45 Speleers, Hendrik
B-spline approximation of anisotropic diffusion problems: spectral symbols and anisotropic multi-iterative solvers
15:20 Discussion
15:30 Coffee break
15:50 Working group on limits of gyrokinetic theory and discussions in small groups
  

Friday, October 18th

09:00   Einkemmer, Lukas
Solving the Vlasov equation on modern computer architectures: algorithms and efficient implementation
09:35 Discussion                                   
09:45 Güçlü, Yaman
PSYDAC: a parallel finite element solver with automatic code generation
10:20 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 Navaro, Pierre
Solving the Vlasov equation with Julia
11:25 Discussion
11:35 Pagès, Valentin
An energy and charge-conserving compatible FEM-PIC scheme for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations
12:10 Discussion
12:20 Lunch break
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