A review of modelling and simulation of hydrogen behaviour in tungsten at different scales

GH Lu, HB Zhou, CS Becquart - Nuclear Fusion, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten (W) is considered to be one of the most promising plasma-facing materials (PFMs)
for next-step fusion energy systems. However, as a PFM, W will be subjected to extremely …

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 …

Hydrogen diffusion and vacancies formation in tungsten: density functional theory calculations and statistical models

N Fernandez, Y Ferro, D Kato - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
The interaction of hydrogen with tungsten is investigated by means of the Density Functional
Theory (DFT) and statistical methods based on the transition-state theory and …

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 …

Parameter-free quantitative simulation of high-dose microstructure and hydrogen retention in ion-irradiated tungsten

DR Mason, F Granberg, M Boleininger… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Hydrogen isotopes are retained in plasma-facing fusion materials, triggering hydrogen
embrittlement and changing tritium inventory as a function of exposure to neutron irradiation …

Deuterium occupation of vacancy-type defects in argon-damaged tungsten exposed to high flux and low energy deuterium plasma

XL Zhu, Y Zhang, L Cheng, Y Yuan… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Doppler broadening spectroscopy in the positron annihilation technique (DBS-PA) has been
employed to investigate the defect properties in argon-damaged tungsten exposed to low …

Embedded-atom method potential for modeling hydrogen and hydrogen-defect interaction in tungsten

LF Wang, X Shu, GH Lu, F Gao - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
An embedded-atom method potential has been developed for modeling hydrogen in body-
centered-cubic (bcc) tungsten by fitting to an extensive database of density functional theory …

Blister-dominated retention mechanism in tungsten exposed to high-fluence deuterium plasma

M Liu, W Guo, L Cheng, J Wang, S Wang, H Yin… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
To investigate the effect of blistering on hydrogen isotope (HI) retention, a series of
deuterium plasma exposures were performed using recrystallized tungsten samples at 500 …

Energy loss in low energy nuclear recoils in dark matter detector materials

S Sassi, M Heikinheimo, K Tuominen, A Kuronen… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent progress in phonon-mediated detectors with eV-scale nuclear recoil energy
sensitivity requires an understanding of the effect of the crystalline defects on the energy …

Study of hydrogen isotopes behavior in tungsten by a multi trap** macroscopic rate equation model

EA Hodille, Y Ferro, N Fernandez, CS Becquart… - Physica …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Density functional theory (DFT) studies show that in tungsten a mono vacancy can contain
up to six hydrogen isotopes (HIs) at 300 K with detrap** energies varying with the number …