Results from the PSI-Center Interfacing Group

The Interfacing Group of the Plasma Science and Innovation Center (PSI--Center --- http://www.psicenter.org) facilitates simulations of collaborating Innovative Confinement Concept (ICC) experiments. Present collaborating experiments include the Bellan Plasma Group (Caltech), FRX--L (Los Alamos National Laboratory), HIT--SI (Univ of Wash --- UW), LDX (M.I.T.), MBX (Univ of Texas--Austin), MST, Pegasus (Univ of Wisc--Madison), PHD (UW), SSPX (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), SSX (Swarthmore College), TCS (UW), and ZaP (UW). NIMROD code meshes have been created and/or modified for the Caltech, SSX, and LDX experiments. Simulations of the Caltech and SSX experiments study formation and buildup of electrode-driven helicity injection. LDX simulations study stability of marginally-stable equilibria as additional heating increases pressure gradients. NIMROD output files are interfaced to the powerful 3-D viewer, VisIt (http://www.llnl.gov/visit), which will be demonstrated. Results from these simulations, as well as an overview of the Interfacing Group status will be presented.