A comparison of carbon impurities in pre-and post-melt uranium Part 1: Scanning electron microscopy analysis

MJ Olszta, JF Corbey, MT Athon, ZF Huber… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although C impurities in U have been studied for decades, fundamental questions regarding
their incorporation, migration, and transformations during metal processing still exist. In two …

Computational studies of impurity migration during induction stirring of molten uranium

RK Singh, JF Corbey, NS Deshmukh… - Computational Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding and controlling impurity behavior in actinide metal casting processes are
foundational for efficient part production yet remain major challenges for researchers and …

Spherical Gaussians: An intuitive method for creating complex anisotropies in Interface energies for the phase field method

JL Bair, NS Deshmukh, DG Abrecht - Computational Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Phase Field Method requires continuous functions to control interface energies
between phases. We have developed a method for phase field modeling where interface …

Modeling Induction Stirring and Particle Tracking in Molten Uranium

DG Abrecht, JL Bair, JF Corbey, NS Deshmukh… - 2021 - osti.gov
Two independent numerical models have been developed to simulate the behavior of
carbon impurities in molten uranium metal. Informed by experimental parameters, one …