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Research collaborations
The Plasma&ElectroMagnetics Group benefits from collaborations with many other research organisations. During the HPH.COM project, we worked with an international consortium comprising 15 European groups, between research institutes, large companies and small medium-sized aerospace companies from five European countries (Italy, France, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark) and two research centers located in Russia and Ukraine.
Right now, we are working with ENEA-EURATOM Association (Frascati, Rome, Italy) and with TU/e Technical University of Eindhoven (Eindhoven, the Netherlands).
With the Plasma&ElectroMagnetics theses underway, there are several opportunities of collaborations. Key people are Prof. Alessandro Cardinali from ENEA-EURATOM and Prof. Vito Lancellotti from TU/e, respectively.
taly is a research pioneer of nuclear fusion, one of the most useful options to ensure the availability on a large scale of an energy source that is safe, environmentally-friendly and actually inexhaustible. Started at the end of 1950s at the Frascati Research Centre, research was first focused on tests on plasmas to then evolve towards a complex physics, technology and engineering system, where ENEA is the national programme’s leading actor and coordinator.
Frascati Research Center is involved in the fusion programme both at a theoretical-numerical modelling and experimental level.
Prof. A. Cardinali is a staff senior scientist (“dirigente di ricerca”) at the ENEA in Frascati in the "Magnetic Confinement Theory Division", (actually "Frascati Plasma Theory Group"), in charge of theoretical studies on propagation and absorption of electromagnetic waves in linear and nonlinear regimes, plasma instabilities, Fokker-Planck calculations and codes, Vlasov codes, Hamiltonian description of wave propagation, symplectic numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems. Thermonuclear instability in ignited plasmas.
He is also official referee of “Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion”, Nuclear Fusion, Physics of Plasmas, Physics Letters A, Fusion Engineering and Design peer reviewd journals.
The TU/e profiles itself as a leading international university specializing in engineering science & technology, contributing through excellent teaching and research to progress in the technical sciences, to the development of technological innovations and as a result to the growth of welfare and well being, both within its own region (technology & innovation hotspot Eindhoven) and beyond it. In brief, the TU/e profiles itself as the university "Where Innovation Starts". The Faculty of Electrical Engineering concentrates its activities on the analysis, synthesis and management of complex connected systems concerned with manipulating or guiding electromagnetic quantities. This is achieved by training highly qualified and academic people and by providing to the best of its ability new knowledge based on high quality research. The faculty aims to make a contribution to society by stimulating an improvement in the quality of life in a general sense and by being a leading innovative force behind the economy.
The Electro-Magnetics (EM) group, headed by Prof. Tijhuis, has world-leading expertise on applied electromagnetics research. The group carries out both curiosity-driven fundamental research as well as society-driven applied research.
Over the last fifteen years Prof. V. Lancellotti has constantly carried out research in computational electromagnetics for diverse applications. More specifically, he has dealt with problems of wave scattering, wave radiation, and wave propagation in complex geometries and environments. Most notably, his activity at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) led to the development of a new, more efficient, version of the TOPICA code for the analysis and design of plasma facing antennas operating in thermonuclear fusion reactors.