Associate Professor (L. 240)
Department of Energy (DENERG)
Profile
Research interests
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Research topics
- Study of Edge Plasma Physics in Tokamaks, focusing on the Power Exhaust and Pumping problems in the next generation of experiments. With the development of the next generation of Tokamak machines, the power to be handled by solid components will reach unprecedented levels. Lacking of an efficient design, the steady-state heat flux density to exhaust could reach values of several tens (or hundreds) of MW/m2, similar to the values characteristic of the sun surface. In the occurrence of incidental conditions (e.g. disruptions) the above value could temporarily increase by a few orders of magnitude, although for time durations limited to a few milli-seconds. The international fusion community is producing a massive effort to develop an effective design of the divertor, which is the Tokamak component devoted to receive the steady-state fluxes. Moreover, it is mandatory to protect also the remaining part of the wall from the transient loads, without compromising its capacity to allow an efficient transmission of the neutronic flux. Should the wall impede an efficient neutron transmission from the central reactor region to the blanket, the processes leading to Tritium production could be damaged. With a too low Tritium Breeding Ratio (TBR) the fuel cycle could not be closed. A comprehensive approach to the problem implies both studies of Plasma Physics (which is my main scientific interest) and material science. On this, I cooperate actively with the major institutions active in Italy (the DTT consortium, currently building the next italian experimental reactor in Frascati), in Europe (e.g. EUROFusion, which is designing the DEMO reactor. It is thought to produce electricity in the second half of this century) and some private companies (Eni in Italy, the Commonwealth Fusion System (CFS) in US, Tokamak Energy (TE) in UK)). In particular, I am active since several years to produce numerical simulations of several divertor configurations for different Tokamaks. Also, I work on the study of disruption phenomena, with focus on developing proper avoidance and mitigation strategies. Since 2015, I had supervised about ten MSc and several PhD thesis projects on the subject.
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
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Learning to Teach (L2T)
Issued by Politecnico di Torino on 17-02-2023
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- ENERGETICA, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2020/2021 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2019/2020 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGIA E AMBIENTE, 2018/2019 (34. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di ROMA "La Sapienza"
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Energetica. Componente
Teachings
Master of Science
- Nuclear fusion reactor physics. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
- Nuclear fusion reactor physics. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
- Nuclear fusion reactor physics. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
- Nuclear fusion reactor physics. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
- Nuclear fusion reactor engineering. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
- Nuclear fusion reactor physics. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
- Nuclear fusion reactor physics. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
- Introduction to computational heat transfer. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Termofluidodinamica. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Termofluidodinamica. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Termofluidodinamica. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Termofluidodinamica. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Impianti di produzione di potenza e sostenibilità. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Termofluidodinamica. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Impianti di produzione di potenza e sostenibilità. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research groups
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- ND - Nanomaterials for Fusion: experimental and modeling of nanostructured materials and plasma-material interactions for inertial & magnetic confinement fusion, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- ITER Organization - Agreement on Academic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation tra Politecnico di Torino e ITER Organization, (2024-2029) - Responsabile contrattuale
Memoranda of Understanding
Supervised PhD students
- Eleonora Agus Poletti. Programme in Energetica (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Matteo Maria Robaldo. Programme in Energetica (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Elisabetta Bray. Programme in Energetica (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
- Enrico Emanuelli. Programme in Energetica (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
- Lovepreet Singh. Programme in Energetica (37th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Runaway Electron termination dynamics in fusion plasmas
Publications
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- Romanelli, F.; Abate, D.; Acampora, E.; Agguiaro, D.; Agnello, R.; Agostinetti, P.; ... (2024)
Divertor Tokamak Test facility project: status of design and implementation. In: NUCLEAR FUSION, vol. 64. ISSN 0029-5515
Contributo su Rivista - Joffrin, E.; Wischmeier, M.; Baruzzo, M.; Hakola, A.; Kappatou, A.; Keeling, D.; Labit, ... (2024)
Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO. In: NUCLEAR FUSION, vol. 64. ISSN 0029-5515
Contributo su Rivista - Crisanti, F.; Ambrosino, R.; Falessi, M. V.; Gabellieri, L.; Giruzzi, G.; Granucci, G.; ... (2024)
Physics basis for the divertor tokamak test facility. In: NUCLEAR FUSION, vol. 64. ISSN 0029-5515
Contributo su Rivista - Singh, Lovepreet; Borgogno, Dario; Subba, Fabio; Grasso, Daniela (2023)
Post-disruption reconnection event driven by a runaway current. In: PHYSICS OF PLASMAS, vol. 30. ISSN 1089-7674
Contributo su Rivista - Wu, H.; Shi, P.; Subba, F.; Sun, H.; Wischmeier, M.; Zanino, R. (2023)
SOLPS-ITER numerical evaluation about the effect of drifts in a divertor configuration of ASDEX-Upgrade and a limiter configuration of J-TEXT. In: FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, vol. 196. ISSN 0920-3796
Contributo su Rivista