[PDF][PDF] Recent advances in computational materials modeling of tungsten as plasma-facing material for fusion energy applications

J Marian, CS Becquart, C Domain, SL Dudarev… - Nucl …, 2017 - scipub.euro-fusion.org
Nucl. Fusion, 2017scipub.euro-fusion.org
Under the anticipated operating conditions for demonstration magnetic fusion reactors
beyond ITER, structural materials will be exposed to unprecedented conditions of irradiation,
heat flux, and temperature. While such extreme environments remain inaccessible
experimentally, computational modeling and simulation can provide qualitative and
quantitative insights into materials response and complement the available experimental
measurements with carefully validated predictions. For plasma facing components such as …
Abstract
Under the anticipated operating conditions for demonstration magnetic fusion reactors beyond ITER, structural materials will be exposed to unprecedented conditions of irradiation, heat flux, and temperature. While such extreme environments remain inaccessible experimentally, computational modeling and simulation can provide qualitative and quantitative insights into materials response and complement the available experimental measurements with carefully validated predictions. For plasma facing components such as the first wall and the divertor, tungsten (W) has been selected as the best candidate material due to its superior high-temperature and irradiation properties. In this paper we provide a review of recent efforts in computational modeling of W both as a plasma-facing material exposed to He deposition as well as a bulk structural material subjected to fast neutron irradiation. We use a multiscale modeling approach–commonly used as the materials modeling paradigm–to define the outline of the paper and highlight recent advances using several classes of techniques and their interconnection. We highlight several of the most salient findings obtained via computational modeling and point out a number of remaining challenges and future research directions.
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