An Assessment of the Department of Energy's Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Program (2001)

Chapter: Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ADAF: advection-dominated accretion flow

DOE: Department of Energy

DP: Defense Programs

EFIT: a computer modeling code

ELM: edge-localized mode

ERATO: a computer modeling code

FCT: flux-corrected transport

FESAC: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

FIRE: Fusion Ignition Research Experiment

FRC: field-reversed configuration

FULL: a computer modeling code

GA: General Atomics

GATO: a computer modeling code

GS2: a computer modeling code

IFE: inertial fusion energy

ITER: International Toroidal Experimental Reactor

JET: Joint European Torus

KAM: Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser

MFE: magnetic fusion energy

MHD: magnetohydrodynamics

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NERSC: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

NIMROD: Non-ideal MHD with Rotation Open Discussion project

NRC: National Research Council

NSF: National Science Foundation

OER: Office of Energy Research (DOE; renamed the Office of Science)

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OFES: Office of Fusion Energy Sciences

OMB: Office of Management and Budget

PEST: a computer modeling code

PPPL: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PSACI: Plasma Science Advanced Computation Initiative

SEAB: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board

TFTR: Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

TRANSP: a computer modeling code

VMEC: a computer modeling code

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