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Alessandro Biancalani

Dr. Alessandro Biancalani

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Collective Behavior in Complex Systems

March 13th, 2024

The Call-for-Papers of the ICTO conference on Collective Behavior in Complex Systems (Paris, June 27th-28th, 2024) is officially launched. Deadline for abstract submission: April 15th. Fore more infos, see the official webpage. The poster can be downloaded here. The abstract template can be downloaded here.

June 23rd, 2024

The abstracts are NOW ONLINE and can be found here.
Effect of plasma profiles modified by Alfven modes on turbulence

Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles

November 21st, 2023

Alfvén modes carry a heat flux, which can modify the plasma profiles, thus affecting the turbulence dynamics. This effect has now been isolated with ORB5 simulations. Fore more infos, the published paper can be found here and the preprint can be found here.
Alfven modes and turbulence

Selfconsistent multiscale simulations of turbulence and energetic particles in tokamak plasmas

June 24th, 2021

The first global simulations of Alfvén modes and turbulence with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 investigate how macroscopic Alfvén modes and microturbulence modes can generate and nonlinearly interact with meso-scale zonal (i.e. axisymmetric) flows. They also show how the heat flux carried by Alfvén modes can flatten the temperature profiles. Read more in this article.