Alberto Alfier
European Atomic Energy Community
67 Papers
306 Citations
Alberto Alfier is an academic researcher from European Atomic Energy Community. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reversed field pinch & Tokamak. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 67 publications.
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Papers
Self-organized helical equilibria as a new paradigm for ohmically heated fusion plasmas
Rita Lorenzini,Emilio Martines,P. Piovesan,David Terranova,P. Zanca,Matteo Zuin,Alberto Alfier,D. Bonfiglio,Federica Bonomo,Alessandra Canton,Susanna Cappello,L. Carraro,R. Cavazzana,Dominique Escande,Alessandro Fassina,Alessandro Fassina,Paolo Franz,M. Gobbin,P. Innocente,Lionello Marrelli,Roberto Pasqualotto,Maria Ester Puiatti,M. Spolaore,M. Valisa,N. Vianello,Piero Martin,Piero Martin,L. Apolloni,J. Adamek,Matteo Agostini,S.V. Annibaldi,V. Antoni,Fulvio Auriemma,Oliviero Barana,M. Baruzzo,Paolo Bettini,T. Bolzonella,M. Brombin,J. Brotankova,A. Buffa,P. Buratti,Mario Cavinato,B. E. Chapman,Giuseppe Chitarin,S. Dal Bello,A. De Lorenzi,G. De Masi,Alberto Ferro,Elena Gaio,E. Gazza,Leonardo Giudicotti,Francesco Gnesotto,Luca Grando,L. Guazzotto,S. C. Guo,V. Igochine,Yueqiang Liu,Adriano Luchetta,Gabriele Manduchi,Giuseppe Marchiori,Diego Marcuzzi,S. Martini,Karsten McCollam,F. Milani,M. Moresco,L. Novello,S. Ortolani,R. Paccagnella,Simone Peruzzo,R. Piovan,L. Piron,A. Pizzimenti,N. Pomaro,Italo Predebon,J.A. Reusch,G. Rostagni,Guglielmo Rubinacci,J. S. Sarff,F. Sattin,Paolo Scarin,G. Serianni,Piergiorgio Sonato,E. Spada,Anton Soppelsa,Silvia Spagnolo,Gianluca Spizzo,C. Taliercio,Vanni Toigo,Fabio Villone,Roscoe White,D. Yadikin,P. Zaccaria,A. Zamengo,Barbara Zaniol,L. Zanotto,Enrico Zilli,H. Zohm +96 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of a reversed-field-pinch plasma towards a self-organized single-helicity state suggests that instability problems, which have previously hindered the development of these devices, could now be overcome.
Toroidal rotation braking with n = 1 magnetic perturbation field on JET
Youwen Sun,Yunfeng Liang,H. R. Koslowski,S. Jachmich,Alberto Alfier,Otto Asunta,G. Corrigan,C. Giroud,Mikhail Gryaznevich,D. Harting,T. C. Hender,Eric Nardon,Volker Naulin,Vassili Parail,T. Tala,C. Wiegmann,S. Wiesen,Jet-Efda Contributors +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a strong toroidal rotation braking has been observed in plasmas with application of an n = 1 magnetic perturbation field on the JET tokamak.
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Vanishing magnetic shear and electron transport barriers in the RFX-mod reversed field pinch.
M. Gobbin,D. Bonfiglio,Dominique Escande,Ambrogio Fassina,Lionello Marrelli,Alberto Alfier,Emilio Martines,B. Momo,David Terranova +8 more
TL;DR: Helical states with a single axis obtained in viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations exhibit similar nonmonotonic q profiles provided that the final states are preceded by a magnetic island phase, like in the experiment.
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Overview of the RFX fusion science program
Piero Martin,J. Adamek,Piero Agostinetti,Matteo Agostini,Alberto Alfier,C. Angioni,V. Antoni,L. Apolloni,Fulvio Auriemma,Oliviero Barana,Simona Barison,M. Baruzzo,Paolo Bettini,M. Boldrin,T. Bolzonella,D. Bonfiglio,Federica Bonomo,Allen H. Boozer,Allen H. Boozer,M. Brombin,J. Brotankova,A. Buffa,Alessandra Canton,Susanna Cappello,L. Carraro,R. Cavazzana,M. Cavinato,M. Cavinato,Luis Chacon,Giuseppe Chitarin,W. A. Cooper,S. Dal Bello,M. Dalla Palma,R. Delogu,A. De Lorenzi,G. De Masi,J.Q. Dong,Michael Drevlak,Dominique Escande,F. Fantini,Alessandro Fassina,F. Fellin,Alberto Ferro,S. Fiameni,A. Fiorentin,Paolo Franz,Elena Gaio,X. Garbet,E. Gazza,Leonardo Giudicotti,Francesco Gnesotto,M. Gobbin,Luca Grando,S. C. Guo,Yoichi Hirano,S. P. Hirshman,Shunsuke Ide,V. Igochine,Yongkyoon In,P. Innocente,Satoru Kiyama,Songfen Liu,Yueqiang Liu,D. Lopez Bruna,Rita Lorenzini,Adriano Luchetta,Gabriele Manduchi,D.K. Mansfield,Giuseppe Marchiori,Diego Marcuzzi,Lionello Marrelli,S. Martini,Go Matsunaga,Emilio Martines,G. Mazzitelli,Karsten McCollam,Sheena Menmuir,F. Milani,B. Momo,M. Moresco,Stefano Munaretto,L. Novello,M. Okabayashi,S. Ortolani,Roberto Paccagnella,Roberto Pasqualotto,M. Pavei,G. V. Perverezev,Simone Peruzzo,R. Piovan,P. Piovesan,L. Piron,A. Pizzimenti,N. Pomaro,Neil Pomphrey,Italo Predebon,Maria Ester Puiatti,V. Rigato,Andrea Rizzolo,G. Rostagni,Guglielmo Rubinacci,A. Ruzzon,Hajime Sakakita,Raul Sanchez,Raul Sanchez,J. S. Sarff,Fabio Sattin,A. Scaggion,Paolo Scarin,Wolf-Dieter Schneider,Gianluigi Serianni,Piergiorgio Sonato,E. Spada,Anton Soppelsa,Silvia Spagnolo,M. Spolaore,Donald A. Spong,Gianluca Spizzo,Manabu Takechi,Cesare Taliercio,David Terranova,Vanni Toigo,M. Valisa,M. Veranda,Nicola Vianello,Fabio Villone,Zhirui Wang,Roscoe White,D. Yadikin,P. Zaccaria,A. Zamengo,P. Zanca,Barbara Zaniol,L. Zanotto,Enrico Zilli,Giuseppe Zollino,Matteo Zuin +136 more
TL;DR: The RFX programme also provides important results for the fusion community and in particular for tokamaks and stellarators on feedback control of MHD stability and on three-dimensional physics.
Transport and confinement studies in the RFX-mod reversed-field pinch experiment
TL;DR: In this article, a modified RFX experiment (RFX-mod) external magnetic field coils and a close fitting thin conductive shell control radial magnetic fields, where radial field zeroing at the thin shell radius is stationary provided by the feedback-controlled coils.
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