Behavior of tungsten under irradiation and plasma interaction

M Rieth, R Doerner, A Hasegawa, Y Ueda… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
In 1959 the Journal of Nuclear Materials (JNM) was founded and is now celebrating its
Diamond Anniversary year. The present paper is part of a series in which single JNM …

Perspectives on multiscale modelling and experiments to accelerate materials development for fusion

MR Gilbert, K Arakawa, Z Bergstrom, MJ Caturla… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Prediction of material performance in fusion reactor environments relies on computational
modelling, and will continue to do so until the first generation of fusion power plants come on …

Helium, hydrogen, and fuzz in plasma-facing materials

KD Hammond - Materials Research Express, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten, the primary material under consideration as the divertor material in magnetic-
confinement nuclear fusion reactors, has been known for the last decade to form'fuzz'—a …

Recent advances in modeling and simulation of the exposure and response of tungsten to fusion energy conditions

J Marian, CS Becquart, C Domain, SL Dudarev… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Under the anticipated operating conditions for demonstration magnetic fusion reactors
beyond ITER, structural and plasma-facing materials will be exposed to unprecedented …

Large-scale atomistic simulations of low-energy helium implantation into tungsten single crystals

KD Hammond, S Blondel, L Hu, D Maroudas, BD Wirth - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of post-implantation helium behavior in plasma-
facing tungsten single crystals reveal orientation-dependent depth profiles, surface evolution …

Competing kinetics and He bubble morphology in W

L Sandoval, D Perez, BP Uberuaga, AF Voter - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The growth process of He bubbles in W is investigated using molecular dynamics and
parallel replica dynamics for growth rates spanning 6 orders of magnitude. Fast and slow …

Mechanical properties and microstructural change of W–Y2O3 alloy under helium irradiation

X Tan, L Luo, H Chen, X Zhu, X Zan, G Luo, J Chen… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
A wet-chemical method combined with spark plasma sintering was used to prepare a W–
Y2O3 alloy. High-temperature tensile tests and nano-indentation microhardness tests were …

Helium bubble bursting in tungsten

F Sefta, N Juslin, BD Wirth - Journal of Applied Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to systematically study the pressure
evolution and bursting behavior of sub-surface helium bubbles and the resulting tungsten …

Morphologies of tungsten nanotendrils grown under helium exposure

K Wang, RP Doerner, MJ Baldwin, FW Meyer… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Nanotendril “fuzz” will grow under He bombardment under tokamak-relevant conditions on
tungsten plasma-facing materials in a magnetic fusion energy device. We have grown …

Challenges and opportunities of modeling plasma–surface interactions in tungsten using high-performance computing

BD Wirth, KD Hammond, SI Krasheninnikov… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
The performance of plasma facing components (PFCs) is critical for ITER and future
magnetic fusion reactors. The ITER divertor will be tungsten, which is the primary candidate …