The Pencil Code
a high-order finite-difference code for compressible MHD
12th Pencil Code User Meeting 2016
DATE & VENUE:
8th to 12th August 2016
The meeting was held in Graz (Austria) at the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
PROGRAM:
The program of the meeting will be as usual: Scientific presentations and technical discussions around the Pencil Code.
Please find here the agenda.txt and our detailed schedule:
| Monday, 8 | morning | meet & greet |
| 13:30 | Official Welcome | |
| 13:45 | Axel: code updates & statistics | |
| 14:15 | discussions on agenda | |
| 15:00 | status reports | |
| 17:30 | city waling tour & dinner | |
| Tuesday, 9 | 09:00 | Jonas Krüger: Combusting particles in the Pencil Code (via internet) |
| 09:30 | Nils: The effect of turbulence on particles with surface reactions | |
| 10:00 | coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Jørgen: The effect of free-stream turbulence on the transition in the wake of a circular cylinder | |
| 11:00 | discussions related to particles | |
| 12:00 | sandwich lunch & excursion to "Bärenschützklamm" | |
| Wednesday, 10 | 09:00 | Akshay: Relative velocities and collisions between heavy particles in turbulent flows |
| 09:30 | Kiwan: Inverse transfer of magnetic energy in decaying MHD turbulence | |
| 10:00 | discussions & coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Rohit: Energisation of particles in magnetic reconnection | |
| 11:30 | Philippe: The PIC method and its application to mangetic reconnection | |
| 12:00 | discussions & lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Jörn: Slope limited diffusion in the Pencil Code | |
| 14:00 | Matthias: PC goes YY | |
| 14:30 | Wlad: Multiple special modules | |
| 15:00 | discussions & coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Alex: A Barnes-Hut self-gravity module for Pencil | |
| 16:00 | Tobias: GIT introduction & discussions | |
| 16:30 | flexible discussions | |
| 17:30 | barbequeue | |
| Thursday, 11 | 09:00 | Fred: Test field application & issues related to timestep control |
| 09:30 | Edward & Navin: Explosive magneto-rotational instability | |
| 10:00 | discussions & coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Graeme: Cosmic Rays in the Interstellar Medium | |
| 11:30 | Dhruba: Lyapunov exponents and the kinematic dynamo | |
| 12:00 | discussions & lunch break | |
| 13:30 | general code questions & discussions | |
| 14:00 | Axel: The role of magnetic helicity in solar physics (Institute's colloquium) | |
| 15:00 | discussions & coffee break | |
| 16:00 | summaries & outlook | |
| 18:00 | "Buschenschank" dinner | |
| Friday, 12 | 09:00 | expert coding & beginners hands-on sessions |
| 12:30 | lunch break | |
| 13:30 | expert coding & beginners hands-on sessions |
PARTICIPANTS:
- Jørgen R. Aarnes, NTNU Trondheim
- Akshay Bhatnagar, NORDITA Stockholm
- Philippe Bourdin, IWF Graz
- Axel Brandenburg, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Navin Dwivedi, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba
- Frederick Gent, Aalto University
- Nils Haugen, NTNU/SINTEF Trondheim
- Tobias Heinemann, Niels Bohr International Academy, Copenhagen
- Edward Liverts, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba
- Wladimir Lyra, JPL/NASA Pasadena
- Kiwan W. Park, Heidelberg University
- Matthias Rheinhardt, University of Helsinki
- Alex Richert, Penn State University
- Graeme Sarson, Newcastle University
- Rohit Sharma, NCRA Pune
- Jörn Warnecke, MPS Göttingen
The next meeting will be in Newcastle in 2017...