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most citedTurbulence suppression by energetic particle effects in modern optimized stellarators

39 citations · 48 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

physics.plasm-ph2025

First global gyrokinetic profile predictions of ITER burning plasma

A. Di Siena, C. Bourdelle, A. Bañón Navarro +11

In this work, we present the first global gyrokinetic simulations of the ITER baseline scenario operating at 15 MA using GENE-Tango electrostatic and electromagnetic simulations. T…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Optimizing Particle Transport for Enhanced Confinement in Quasi-Isodynamic Stellarators

A. Bañón Navarro, A. Di Siena, F. Jenko +2

Despite significant advances in reducing turbulent heat losses, modern quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators -- such as Stellaris -- continue to suffer from poor particle confinement,…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Assessing the Impact of Alpha Particles on Thermal Confinement in JET D-T Plasmas through Global GENE-Tango Simulations

A. Di Siena, J. Garcia, R. Bilato +14

The capability of the global, electromagnetic gyrokinetic GENE code interfaced with the transport Tango solver is exploited to address the impact of fusion alpha particles (in thei…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 9 cited

Predictions of improved confinement in SPARC via energetic particle turbulence stabilization

A. Di Siena, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. T. Howard +8

The recent progress in high-temperature superconductor technologies has led to the design and construction of SPARC, a compact tokamak device expected to reach plasma breakeven wit…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 39 cited

Turbulence suppression by energetic particle effects in modern optimized stellarators

Alessandro Di Siena, Alejandro Banon Navarro, Frank Jenko

Turbulent transport is known to limit the plasma confinement of present-day optimized stellarators. To address this issue, a novel method to strongly suppress turbulence in such de…