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title: 'PlasmaPy Simulation Working Group Meeting | Thursday 2021 October 14 at 16:00 UTC'
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# PlasmaPy Simulation Working Group Meeting | Thursday 2021 October 14 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. Switch meeting time to 17 UTC for ≥ Nov 18 because of time change in US & Europe?
3. Plans for DPP meeting
4. [Use cases!](https://hackmd.io/8RxgS6DiT6aGMsPCOU-s4w)
5. 
6. Decide on action items: what are our next steps?
7. Standing items
    * [Issues](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/issues)
    * [Pull requests](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/pulls)
    
## Attendees

* Luciano, Nick

## Action Items

***Nick***
* Finish the example use case

## Minutes

* Nick will talk with Jimmy next week about normalizations
* There might be a PlasmaPy table at DPP, but we might wait until next year
* Will be a PlasmaPy poster at DPP
* Ideally the Sim package would start with three classes: Initial Conditions, Boundary conditions, Simulation Domain
* These classes would be used by the specific code dev to set up their input files. 
* We could also have an abstract Simulation class that could be used to have a broader interface to allow (somewhat) interchangeable numerical method modules
* Might be good to come up with some pseudocode to give ideas on the interfaces and how to use it.
* Luciano brought up the [method in Sarkas](https://murillo-group.github.io/sarkas/documentation/tutorial.html) to set up and run simulations 
