--- tags: simulation, minutes --- # PlasmaPy Simulation Working Group Meeting | Thursday 2021 October 28 at 16:00 UTC ### Video Conference Information * [Zoom link](https://www.plasmapy.org/zoom) * Instant messaging: [Matrix](https://app.element.io/#/room/#plasmapy:openastronomy.org) and [Gitter](https://gitter.im/PlasmaPy/Lobby) * [GitHub Minutes Repository](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes) * [PlasmaPy on GitHub](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy) ([pull requests](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/pulls), [issues](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/issues)) * [PlasmaPy Enhancement Proposals](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-PLEPs) * [PlasmaPy Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_sqqq390s24jjfjp3q86pv41pi8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York) ## Agenda (please feel free to edit or add items) 1. Introductions 2. Discussions about a MagNetUS software & data working group 3. Normalizations update 4. Our plans for the DPP meeting 5. Updates to PlasmaPy's contributor guide 6. Code review bottleneck 7. ## Attendees * ... ## Action Items ***Person*** * ... ## Minutes * MagNetUS * ... * Normalizations * Nick & Jimmy met last week about normalizations * GEM challenge: models in different regimes with different approximations. * What should your overall normalization class be when comparing MHD (which has no scales) with PIC? * New `PhysicalType` class in `astropy.units` (v4.3) * Maybe we can get a normalization from a `PhysicalType`. Perhaps we get normalizations for fundamental SI units, and then have a function that gets the normalization for a specific physical type * MHD has no inherent scale, but other systems that we use do * Molecular dynamics : Length is usually in units of the Wigner-Seitz radius, and time in units of plasma frequency. * Ideally the `Normalization` class would * New [PPPL Computation Sciences Department](https://sites.google.com/view/ppplcsd/home)