Associate Professor
Department of Energy (DENERG)
- Vice Coordinator Collegio di Ingegneria Energetica
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
Open badges
- Learning to Teach (L2T)
Issued by Politecnico di Torino on 17-02-2023
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- ENERGETICA, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGETICA, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ENERGIA E AMBIENTE, 2017/2018 (34. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di ROMA "La Sapienza"
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Energetica. Componente
Teachings
Master of Science
- 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
- Centrali termoelettriche e nucleari e regolazione. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
- Introduction to computational heat transfer. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
- Nuclear fusion reactor physics and engineering (modulo di Nuclear fusion reactor physics). A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- 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
Supervised PhD students
- 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-in progress)
Publications
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- Sirén, Paula; Varje, Jari; Äkäslompolo, Simppa; Asunta, Otto; Giroud, Carine; ... (2018)
Versatile fusion source integrator AFSI for fast ion and neutron studies in fusion devices. In: NUCLEAR FUSION, vol. 58. ISSN 0029-5515
Contributo su Rivista - Varje, J.; Sirén, P.; Weisen, H.; Kurki-Suonio, T.; Äkäslompolo, S.; Subba, F.; ... (2017)
Synthetic NPA diagnostic for energetic particles in JET plasmas. In: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, vol. 12. ISSN 1748-0221
Contributo su Rivista - Chankina, A. V.; Delabie, E.; Corrigan, G.; Maggi, C. F.; Meyer, H.; Subba, F; JET ... (2017)
Possible influence of near SOL plasma on the H-mode power threshold. In: NUCLEAR MATERIALS AND ENERGY, vol. 12, pp. 273-277. ISSN 2352-1791
Contributo su Rivista - Widdowson, A.; Alves, E.; Baron-Wiechec, A.; Barradas, N. P.; Catarino, N.; Coad, J. P.; ... (2017)
Overview of the JET ITER-like wall divertor. In: NUCLEAR MATERIALS AND ENERGY, vol. 12, pp. 499-505. ISSN 2352-1791
Contributo su Rivista - Curuia, Marian; Craciunescu, Teddy; Soare, Sorin; Zoita, Vasile; Braic, Viorel; Croft, ... (2017)
Upgrade of the tangential gamma-ray spectrometer beam-line for JET DT experiments. In: FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, vol. 123, pp. 749-753. ISSN 0920-3796
Contributo su Rivista