Code Development
• Expanded use of Implicit Techniques
– Implicit treatment of the Hall term and advective terms
– Incorporate gyroviscosity free of time step restriction
– Optimize parallel algorithms for elliptic terms
• Kinetic Closures for majority species
– Trajectory tracking in non-uniform and unstructured mesh
– Implementing df /CEL closures into efficient time advance
• Improved and adaptive meshing
–  Improved and generalized mesh generation
–  Implement a field-aligned mesh
–  Implement mesh adaptivity