GEC 2018

Workshops

MULTI-PHYSICS OBJECT ORIENTED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT (MOOSE)
Sunday – Monday, November 4-5, 2018, 8:30AM to 5:00PM
Organized by Steven Shannon
Presenters:  Steven Shannon¹, Cody Permann³, Alex Lindsay³, Casey Icenhour¹, Richard Martineau³, Corey DeChant¹, Davide Curreli², Shane Keniley²

This two-day workshop is a hands-on introduction to the Multi-Physics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE).  MOOSE is a simulation framework built from PetSci that enables efficient simulation of complex physical systems with minimal programming background.  Attendees are encouraged to visit the MOOSE website at www.mooseframework.org and walk through the step by step process of installing the framework on their computer.  Support through this process is provided through the MOOSE Google Group message board.  The workshop itself will consist of interactive modules where instructors from the MOOSE development team will work with attendees to build a simple plasma models.  Each module will build on previous modules to introduce fundamental MOOSE features that will combine to demonstrate simulation capabilities for low temperature plasma modeling.  The intention is not to provide an exhaustive overview of simulation capabilities but to instead provide attendees with the necessary tools to build unique simulation capabilities for their specific research challenges.  Users should attend the workshop with laptop computers with MOOSE installed to allow for interactive instruction.   At the completion of the workshop attendees will be able to install and run MOOSE and associated applications as well as carry out plasma simulations studies. 

If you are attending, please make sure to work through the MOOSE installation at www.mooseframework.org.  Also, when you register for GEC or DPP, please make sure to select registration at this workshop so that we have some idea of how many attendees to expect (this helps us plan things like coffee breaks, snacks, etc.)  When you arrive at the workshop, please make sure that you have a computer with MOOSE running, as the workshop is interactive and we will be working through problems with attendees in an interactive format.

If you have any questions, please email the workshop organizer, Steven Shannon, at scshannon@ncsu.edu

Two-day schedule:

Day 1: Sunday, November 4, 2018, 8:30AM to 5:00PM
Introduction to the MOOSE framework for scientific simulation Geometry configuration and introduction to kernels (plasma example:  Poisson Equation) Custom Coefficients and Materials (plasma example: species definition, plasma facing materials) Transient simulation Multi-equation variable coupling Simulation adaptivity (plasma examples: wave and convection fronts) Interface kernels (plasma examples: plasma/liquid interfaces, sheath boundaries) Auxiliary kernels (plasma examples: externally applied or calculated plasma quantities) Preconditioning Postprocessing

Day 2: Monday, November 5, 2018, 8:30AM to 5:00PM
Wrap up of Day 1 topics and overview of advanced capabilities.   Demonstration of physical problems using MOOSE (plasma applications: RF electromagnetics, plasma liquid systems, multi-species plasma chemistry)

Attendance at this workshop is free of charge.  Resources for this workshop have been generously supported by Idaho National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation program. 

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS WORKSHOP
Monday, November 5
Organized by Peter Bruggeman
Abstracts and additional details available HERE

This workshop will bring together scientists interested in plasma diagnostics with an aim to exchange best practices and new developments. The morning session consists of 4 invited tutorial presentations aimed at junior researchers or researchers new to plasma diagnostics. The presentations in the afternoon session will focus on recent new developments in plasma diagnostics.

Tutorial session: 
Session Chair: Peter Bruggeman
8:00                 Optical Diagnostics - Richard Miles, US
9:00                 Break
9:30                 Mass Spectrometry of Reactive Low-Pressure and Atmospheric Plasmas - Jan Benedikt, Germany
10:30              In Situ Surface Diagnostics during Plasma-Material Interactions - Vincent Donnelly, US
11:30              Electrical Probe Measurements – Nick Braithwaite, UK
12:30-2:00      Lunch break

Advances in Diagnostics Session:
Session Chair: Yukinori Sakiyama
2:00                 In situ optical diagnostics to understand plasma-surface interactions during atomic layer processing of Si-based dielectrics– Sumit Agarwal, US
2:30                 Electrical Measurements in Pulsed Plasmas – Tom Huiskamp, Netherlands
3:00                 Diagnostics of Plasma-Liquid Interactions – Koichi Sasaki, Japan
3:30                 In Situ Approaches for Diagnostics of Nanoparticles in Plasmas – Shurik Yatom, US
4:00                 Coherent and Incoherent Thomson Scattering in Low-Temperature Plasmas– Sedina Tsikata, France
4:30                 Terahertz Diagnostics for Electron Density Measurements – Uwe Czarnetzki, Germany
5:00                 Closing

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR PLASMA APPLICATIONS WORKSHOP
Monday, November 5
Organized by Igor Kaganovich
Abstracts and additional details available HERE

This workshop on High Performance Computing (HPC) for Plasma Applications will bring together scientists from GEC and DPP communities with the aim to exchange best ideas and practices on how to use HPC for plasma applications. Each talk will review and summarize recent advances in HPC for a specific topic and outline most promising future directions.