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Francesco Piras

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Extremely Shaped Plasmas to Improve the Tokamak Concept

Francesco Piras

Energy is essential for human existence and our future depends on plentiful and accessible sources of energy. The world population is fast growing and the average energy used per capita increases. One of the greatest challenges for human beings is that of ...

EPFL2011

Snowflake Divertor Plasmas on TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Richard Pitts, Antoine Pochelon, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Costanza Zucca, Francesco Piras, Attila Bencze

Starting from a standard single null X-point configuration, a second order null divertor (snowflake (SF)) has been successfully created on the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak. The magnetic properties of this innovative configuration have bee ...

PPCF2008

Real time control of the sawtooth period using EC launchers

Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, James Paley, Francesco Piras

Tokamak plasmas operating at high performance are limited by several MHD instabilities. The sawtooth instability limits the core plasma pressure and can drive the neoclassical tearing mode unstable, but also prevents accumulation of impurities in the core. ...

Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion2009