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<h1 align="center">The Plasma Science and Innovation Center</h1>
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The Plasma Science and Innovation Center (PSI-Center) is a U.S. Department of Energy-funded
program to improve computational predictability of innovative confinement concept (ICC)
experiments. The PSI-Center is adding the necessary physics and algorithmic capability to
extended magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) codes, and is working with experimentalists to validate
code results with experimental data. The computational groups work closely with the
experimentalists to iterate this process, summarized in this Mission Statement: "In concert
with smaller innovative plasma physics experiments, refine and optimize existing MHD codes
to achieve significantly improved predictive capability." The PSI-Center emphasizes physics
that may extend beyond the standard analysis presently applied to the mainline (e.g., tokamak)
fusion programs. This specifically includes strong flow effects, kinetic effects,
reconnection and relaxation phenomena, transport, atomic physics, radiation, FLR effects,
two-fluid or Hall physics, more realistic boundary conditions and geometry, and other physics
that must be included in models to achieve the needed predictability. All of these effects
are also important in mainline fusion devices, but one or more tend to dominate effects in
particular ICC configurations, which makes those effects particularly amenable to ICC study
with their existing diagnostics. The goal of the PSI-Center is to capture the dominant
effects of many different ICC experiments, covering most of ICC physics.
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The Plasma Science and Innovation Center (PSI-Center) is a DOE approved
project based at the University of Washington, providing theoretical
and numerical support for Innovative Confinement Concepts (ICC). The
PSI-Center places special emphasis on the smaller Emerging Concept (EC)
experiments (concepts with no Proof of Principle experiments). A
principal product of the PSI-Center will be the refinement of
overlapping computational tools with sufficient physics, boundary
conditions, and geometry to be calibrated with experiments and achieve
predictive capabilities.
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<center><h3><b> Up Coming Events </b></h3></center>
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<center>52nd Annual APS Meeting Nov. 8-12, Chicago IL</center>
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November 12-16, 2007<br>
Rosen Centre Hotel<br>
Orlando, Florida<br><p>
PSI-Center Collaborators Satellite Mtg.<br>
With a focus on applications to experiments.<br>
Tuesday, Nov. 13 in Salons 1-2 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm<br>
<a href="info/psi-agenda.pdf">Agenda</a>
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Contact Information:<a href="mailto:luisa@aa.washington.edu"> Luisa Pareja-Klemisch<br>
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<a href="ProjectOverview.html">Project Overview</a>
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<a href="Codes.html">Codes used by the PSI-Center</a>
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<a href="Organization.html">Organization of PSI-Center</a>
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Boundary Conditions and Geometry Group
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Two-Fluid, MHD Transport, and Relaxation Group
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FLR and Kinetic Effects Group
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<a href="IG.html">Interfacing Group</a>
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<!-- <a href="/roadmap/index.html">The ICC Physics R&D Roadmap</a> -->
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<a href="Personnel.html">List of PSI-Center Personnel and Institutions</a>
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<a href="publications.html">Posters/Presentations</a>,<a href="publist.html">Publications</a>, and <a href="movielist.html">movies</a> by PSI-Center Personnel
<p><a href="/QPR/">Progress Reports</a>
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<a href="mailto:luisa@aa.washington.edu">PSI Center Info e-mail</a>
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For more information please e-mail email us at <a href="mailto:psicenter-info@aa.washington.edu">
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