Dr. Alessandro Biancalani

Publications in peer-reviewed international journals (65):

2024:
- H. Zohm, et al, "Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results in view of ITER and DEMO", Nuclear Fusion, in press (2024), link

2023:
- A. Biancalani, et al, "Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles", J. Plasma Phys. 89, 905890602 (2023). arXiv - link

- B. Rettino, T. Hayward-Schneider, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, P. Lauber, M. Weiland, F. Vannini, F. Jenko, "Gyrokinetic modelling of non-linear interaction of Alfvén Waves and EGAMs in ASDEX-Upgrade", Nuclear Fusion 63, 126051 (2023). link

- A. Mishchenko, et al, "Numerical tools for burning plasmas", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 65, 064001 (2023). link

- J.N. Sama, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, I. Chavdarovski, D. Del Sarto, A. Ghizzo, T. Hayward-Schneider, P. Lauber, B. Rettino, F. Vannini, "Effect of temperature anisotropy on the dynamics of geodesic acoustic modes", Journal of Plasma Physics 89, 905890109 (2023). arXiv - link

2022:
- M. Sadr, A. Mishchenko, T. Hayward-Schneider, Axel Koenies, A. Bottino, A. Biancalani, P. Donnel, E. Lanti and L. Villard, "Linear and nonlinear excitation of TAE modes by external electromagnetic perturbations using ORB5", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 64, 085010 (2022). link

- F. Vannini, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, T. Hayward-Schneider, P. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, E. Poli, B. Rettino, G. Vlad, and X. Wang, "Gyrokinetic modelling of the Alfvén mode activity in ASDEX Upgrade with an isotropic slowing-down fast-particle distribution", Nuclear Fusion 62, 126042 (2022). doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ac8b1e arXiv link

- A. Bottino, M.V. Falessi, T. Hayward-Schneider, A. Biancalani, S. Briguglio, R. Hatzky, Ph. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, E. Poli, B. Rettino, F. Vannini, X. Wang, F. Zonca, "Time evolution and finite element representation of Phase Space Zonal Structures in ORB5", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2397 (2022) 012019, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2397/1/012019 link

- F. Vannini, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, T. Hayward-Schneider, P. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, E. Poli, B. Rettino, G. Vlad, X. Wang and the ASDEX Upgrade team, "Gyrokinetic modelling of the Alfven mode and EGAM activity in ASDEX Upgrade", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2397 (2022) 012003, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2397/1/012003 link

- A. Mishchenko, A. Bottino, T. Hayward-Schneider, E. Poli, X. Wang, R. Kleiber, M. Borchardt, C. Nührenberg, A. Biancalani, A. Koenies, "Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in the presence of fast particles and global modes", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 64, 104009 (2022). link

- B. Rettino, T. Hayward-Schneider, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, P. Lauber, I. Chavdarovski, M. Weiland, F. Vannini, and F. Jenko, "Gyrokinetic modelling of anisotropic energetic particle driven instabilities in tokamak plasmas", Nuclear Fusion 62, 076027 (2022). arXiv - link

- O. D. Gurcan, J. Anderson, S. Moradi, A. Biancalani, and P. Morel, "Phase and amplitude evolution in the network of triadic interactions of the Hasegawa-Wakatani system", Physics of Plasmas 29, 052306 (2022) arXiv - link

- U. Stroth, A. Biancalani, et al., "Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development", Nuclear Fusion 62, 042006 (2022) link

2021:
- G. Vlad, et al, "A benchmark between HYMAGYC, MEGA and ORB5 codes using the NLED-AUG test case to study Alfvenic modes driven by energetic particles", Nuclear Fusion 61, 116026 (2021). link

- A. Mishchenko, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, T. Hayward-Schneider, Ph. Lauber, E. Lanti, L. Villard, R. Kleiber, A. Koenies, and M. Borchardt, "Numerics and computation in gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence with global particle-in-cell codes", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 63, 084007 (2021). arXiv - link

- I. Chavdarovski, M. Schneller, A. Biancalani, "Linear dispersion relation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes driven by circulating and trapped energetic particles", Journal of Plasma Physics 87, 905870408 (2021) link

- F. Vannini, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, T. Hayward-Schneider, Ph. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, E. Poli, G. Vlad, the ASDEX Upgrade team, "Gyrokinetic investigation of the nonlinear interaction of Alfven instabilities and energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes", Physics of Plasmas 28, 072504 (2021). arXiv - link

- A. Di Siena, T. Goerler, E. Poli, A. Banon Navarro, A. Biancalani, R. Bilato, N. Bonanomi, I. Novikau, F. Vannini, and F. Jenko, "Nonlinear electromagnetic interplay between fast ions and ion-temperature-gradient plasma turbulence", Journal of Plasma Physics 87, 555870201 (2021), link

- A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, A. Di Siena, O. Gurcan, T. Hayward-Schneider, F. Jenko, P. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, P. Morel, I. Novikau, F. Vannini, L. Villard, A. Zocco, "Gyrokinetic investigation of Alfven instabilities in the presence of turbulence", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 63, 065009 (2021). link - arXiv - paper following the invited talk at the EPS-2019 conference.

- I. Novikau, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, A. Di Siena, P. Lauber, E. Poli, E. Lanti, L. Villard, N. Ohana, S. Briguglio, "Implementation of energy transfer technique in ORB5 to study collisionless wave-particle interactions in phase-space", Comput. Phys. Commun. 262, 107032 (2021). arXiv - link

2020:
- A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, P. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, and F. Vannini, "Effect of the electron redistribution on the nonlinear saturation of Alfven eigenmodes and the excitation of zonal flows", Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 86, page 825860301 (2020). arXiv - link

- I. Novikau, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, P. Lauber, E. Poli, P. Manz, G. D. Conway, A. Di Siena, N. Ohana, E. Lanti, L. Villard, and the ASDEX Upgrade Team, "Nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes in ASDEX Upgrade", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 27, page 042512 (2020) - paper following the invited talk at the AAPPS-DPP conference. link

- A. Di Siena, T. Goerler, E. Poli, A. Banon Navarro, A. Biancalani, F. Jenko, "Corrigendum: Electromagnetic turbulence suppression by energetic particle driven modes", Nuclear Fusion, Letter, Volume 60, page 089501 (2020). link

- F. Vannini, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, T. Hayward-Schneider, Ph. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, I. Novikau, E. Poli and the ASDEX Upgrade team, "Gyrokinetic investigation of the damping channels of Alfven modes in ASDEX Upgrade", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 27, page 042501 (2020). arXiv - link

- E. Lanti, et al., "ORB5: a global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry", Computer Physics Communications, Volume 251, page 107072 (2020) arXiv - link

2019:
- V. Grandgirard, et al., "Linear collisionless dynamics of the GAM with kinetic electrons: comparison simulations/theory", Physics of Plasmas Volume 26, page 122304 (2019). link

- A. Di Siena, T. Goerler, E. Poli, A. Banon Navarro, A. Biancalani, F. Jenko, "Electromagnetic turbulence suppression by energetic particle driven modes", Nuclear Fusion, Letter, Volume 59, page 124001 (2019). arXiv - link

- A. Medvedeva, C. Bottereau, F. Clairet, G. Conway, P. Manz, A. Mink, V. Nikolaeva, D. Prisiazhniuk, U. Stroth, E. Wolfrum, A. Biancalani, S. Heuraux, D. Moline and A. Silva, "High frequency edge coherent modes studied with the ultra-fast swept reflectometer on ASDEX Upgrade", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 61, page 085011 (2019). link

- H. Meyer, et al., "Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 59, page 112014 (2019). link

- S. Taimourzadeh, et al, "Verification and validation of integrated simulation of energetic particles in fusion plasmas I: linear simulations", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 59, page 066006 (2019). link

- J. Horn-Stanja, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino and A. Mishchenko, "Linear gyrokinetic studies with ORB5 en route to pair plasmas", Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 85, Issue 3, page 905850302, (2019). link

- A. Mishchenko, A. Bottino, A. Biancalani, R. Hatzky, T. Hayward-Schneider, N. Ohana, E. Lanti, S. Brunner, L. Villard, M. Borchardt, R. Kleiber, A. Koenies, "Pullback scheme implementation in ORB5", Computer Physics Communications, Volume 238, page 194 (2019). arXiv - link

- L. Villard, B. McMillan, E. Lanti, N. Ohana, A. Bottino, A. Biancalani, I. Novikau, S. Brunner, O. Sauter, N. Tronko, A. Mishchenko, "Global turbulence features across marginality and nonlocal pedestal-core interactions", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 61, page 034003, (2019). link

2018:
- A. Biancalani, N. Carlevaro, A. Bottino, G. Montani, Z. Qiu, "Nonlinear velocity redistribution caused by energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes, mapped with the beam-plasma system", Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 84, page 725840602, (2018). arXiv - link

- N. Ohana, L. Villard, E. Lanti, S. Brunner, B. F. McMillan, N. Tronko, A. Bottino, A. Biancalani, I. Novikau and A. Mishchenko, "Mode excitation by an antenna in global gyrokinetic simulations", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1125, page 012017 (2018). link

- A. Koenies, S. Briguglio, N. Gorelenkov, T. Feher, M. Isaev, Ph. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, D. A. Spong, Y. Todo, W. A. Cooper, R. Hatzky, R. Kleiber, M. Borchardt, G. Vlad, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, and ITPA EP TG, "Benchmark of gyrokinetic, kinetic MHD and gyrofluid codes for the linear calculation of fast particle driven TAE dynamics", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 58, Number 12, page 126027 (2018). link

- A. Di Siena, A. Biancalani, T. Goerler, H. Doerk, I. Novikau, P. Lauber, A. Bottino and E. Poli, "Effect of elongation on energetic particle-induced geodesic acoustic mode", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 58, page 106014, (2018). link

2017:
- A. Biancalani, I. Chavdarovski, Z. Qiu, A. Bottino, D. Del Sarto, A. Ghizzo, O. Gurcan, P. Morel, I. Novikau, "Saturation of energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes due to wave-particle nonlinearity", Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 83, Issue 6, page 725830602 (2017). arXiv - link

- I. Novikau, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, G. D. Conway, O. D. Gurcan, P. Manz, P. Morel, E. Poli, A. Di Siena, the ASDEX Upgrade Team, "Linear gyrokinetic investigation of the geodesic acoustic modes in realistic tokamak configurations", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 24, page 122117 (2017). arXiv - link

- A. Ghizzo, D. Del Sarto, F. Palermo and A. Biancalani, "Transport barriers associated to the resonant interaction between trapped particle modes triggered by plasma polarization injection", Europhysics Letters, Volume 119, Number 1, page 15003 (2017), link

- A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, C. Ehrlacher, V. Grandgirard, G. Merlo, I. Novikau, Z. Qiu, E. Sonnendruecker, X. Garbet, T. Goerler, S. Leerink, F. Palermo, D. Zarzoso, "Cross-code gyrokinetic verification and benchmark on the linear collisionless dynamics of the geodesic acoustic mode", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 24, page 062512 (2017). arXiv - link

- A. Kallenbach, for the ASDEX Upgrade team and the EUROfusion MST1 Team, "Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 57, page 102015 (2017). link

- F. Palermo, E. Poli, A. Bottino, A. Biancalani, G. Conway, B. Scott, "Radial acceleration of Geodesic Acoustic Modes in the presence of a temperature gradient", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 24, page 072503 (2017). link

- Z. Qiu, I. Chavdarovski, A. Biancalani, J. Cao, "On Zero Frequency Zonal Flow and Second Harmonic Generation by Finite Amplitude Energetic Particle Induced Geodesic Acoustic Mode", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 24, page 072509 (2017). arXiv - link

- M. D. J. Cole, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, R. Kleiber, A. Konies, A. Mishchenko, "Toroidal Alfven eigenmodes with nonlinear gyrokinetic and fluid hybrid models", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 24, page 022508 (2017). link

- A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, M. D. J. Cole, C. Di Troia, Ph. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, B. Scott, F. Zonca, "Nonlinear interplay of Alfven instabilities and energetic particles in tokamaks", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 59, page 054004 (2017). arXiv - link

2016:
- A. Biancalani, F. Palermo, C. Angioni, A. Bottino, F. Zonca, "Decay of geodesic acoustic modes due to the combined action of phase mixing and Landau damping", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 23, page 112115 (2016). arXiv - link

- F. Palermo, A. Biancalani, C. Angioni, F. Zonca, A. Bottino, "Combined action of phase-mixing and Landau damping causing strong decay of geodesic acoustic modes", Europhysics Letters, Volume 115, page 15001 (2016). link

- P. Simon, G. D. Conway, U. Stroth, A. Biancalani, F. Palermo and the ASDEX Upgrade Team, "Comparison of experiment and models of geodesic acoustic mode frequency and amplitude geometric scaling in ASDEX Upgrade", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 58, page 045029 (2016). link

- A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, S. Briguglio, A. Koenies, Ph. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, E. Poli, B. D. Scott, F. Zonca, "Linear gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of Alfven instabilities in tokamaks", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 23, page 012108 (2016). arXiv - link

2015:
- H. Zohm, ASDEX Upgrade team and MST1 team, "Recent ASDEX Upgrade research in support of ITER and DEMO", Nucl. Fusion, Volume 55, page 104010 (2015). link

- U. Stroth, A. Biancalani, et al., "Experimental turbulence studies for gyro-kinetic code validation using advanced microwave diagnostics", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 55, page 083027 (2015). link

2014:
- D. Zarzoso, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, Ph. Lauber, E. Poli, J.-B. Girardo, X. Garbet, "Analytic dispersion relation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic modes and simulations with NEMORB", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 54, page 103006 (2014). link

- A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, Ph. Lauber, D. Zarzoso, "Numerical validation of the electromagnetic gyrokinetic code NEMORB on global axisymmetric modes", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 54, page 104004 (2014). arXiv - link

2012:
- A. Biancalani, B. Scott, "Observation of explosive collisionless reconnection in 3D nonlinear gyrofluid simulations", Europhysics Letters, Volume 97, page 15005 (2012). arXiv - link

2011:
- A. Biancalani, L. Chen, F. Pegoraro, F. Zonca, "2D continuous spectrum of shear Alfven waves in the presence of a magnetic island", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 53, page 025009 (2011). arXiv - link

- A.A. Tuccillo, et al., "Overview of the FTU results", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 51, Issue 9, pp. 094015 (2011). link

2010:
- F. Zonca, A. Biancalani, I. Chavdarovski, L. Chen, C. Di Troia, X. Wang, "Kinetic structures of shear Alfven and acoustic wave spectra in burning plasmas", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 260, page 012022 (2010). link

- A. Biancalani, L. Chen, F. Pegoraro, F. Zonca, "Shear Alfven wave continuous spectrum within magnetic islands", Physics of Plasmas, Volume 17, page 122106 (2010). arXiv - link

- A. Biancalani, F. Pegoraro, "Cherenkov emission of electron-cyclotron waves by a magnetized satellite orbiting the ionosphere", Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, page A09330 (2010). link

- A. Biancalani, L. Chen, F. Pegoraro, F. Zonca, "Continuous spectrum of shear Alfven waves within magnetic islands", Physical Review Letters, Volume 105, pp 095002 (2010). link

- A. Biancalani, F. Pegoraro, "Radiation of plasma waves by a conducting body moving through a magnetized plasma", Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, Issue A3, CiteID A03302 (2010). link

2009:
- A.A. Tuccillo, et al., "Overview of the FTU results", Nuclear Fusion, Volume 49, Issue 10, pp. 104013 (2009). link

2008:
- B.M. Annaratone, et al., "Plasma kinetics issues in an ESA study for a plasma laboratory in space", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 50, Issue 7, pp. 074016 (2008). link

- A. Biancalani, F. Ceccherini, F. Pegoraro, "Active magnetic experiment: a magnetic bubble in the ionospheric stream", Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp. 024006 (2008). link

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Selected conference proceedings / talks with material not published yet in peer-reviewed papers:

A. Biancalani, et al, "Global gyrokinetic modeling of geodesic acoustic modes and shear Alfven instabilities in ASDEX Upgrade", IAEA-FEC, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2014, EX/P1-18 (poster), link

A. Biancalani, M. Cole, A. Bottino, A. Koenies, Ph. Lauber, A. Mishchenko, Z. Qiu, B. Scott, F. Zonca, "Gyrokinetic investigation of the nonlinear interplay of Alfven instabilities and energetic particles in tokamaks", IAEA-FEC, Kyoto, Japan, 2016, TH/4-2 (talk), link

A. Biancalani, et al, "Interaction of Alfvenic modes and turbulence, investigated in self-consistent gyrokinetic framework", 46th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, July 8-12, 2019, Milan, Italy, I5.J602 (invited talk), link, slides

A. Biancalani, et al, "Gyrokinetic investigation of the nonlinear interaction of Alfvenic modes and turbulence", AAPPS-DPP, October 26-31, 2020 (invited talk), link

A. Biancalani, et al, "Nonlinear dynamics of zonal structures with ORB5 in the framework of the OrbZONE project", IFERC workshop on GPU programming, June 14th, 2021 (invited talk), link, recorded video

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PhD Thesis:

- A. Biancalani, "Shear Alfven modes in the presence of a magnetic island", PhD thesis, University of Pisa, Italy (2010). link - pdf

HDR Thesis:

- A. Biancalani, "Interaction of geodesic acoustic modes and energetic particles in tokamak plasmas", HDR thesis, Sorbonne University, Paris, France (2019). pdf

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For more info on these publications, you can use the list provided by NASA ADS or by Web of Science.


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A list of publications related to the MET project can be found here.


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A general list of selected publications (i.e. not necessarily with A. Biancalani as a co-author) related to the NLED-AUG case can be found here.


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An article entitled "Selfconsistent multiscale simulations of turbulence and energetic particles in tokamak plasmas", about the results of the numerical project OrbZONE, has been published as a "success story" in the ppi4hpc-news, and can also be found here.