Molecular dynamics simulation analysis of the stress around an up-migrating helium bubble under tungsten surface and its bursting

H Zhang, J Sun, Y Wang, M Qin, T Stirner - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tungsten has been considered as the most qualified candidate for the plasma-facing
material of modern fusion devices up to date. However, in the future tokamaks such as ITER …

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 …

The behavior of helium bubble evolution under neutron irradiation in different tungsten surfaces

J Jian, L Shi, B Zhang - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Tungsten, as a kind of material for the plasma-facing wall in fusion reactor and tokamak, is
subjected to irradiation by the high-energy neutron and the high fluxes of hydrogen and …

Evolution of helium bubbles below different tungsten surfaces under neutron irradiation and non-irradiation conditions

G Wei, F Ren, W Qin, W Hu, H Deng, C Jiang - Computational Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Studies of the evolution of embedded helium (He) bubbles in tungsten are very important for
understanding the failure mechanism of tungsten as a plasma-facing material. In this work …

Influence of grain boundaries on the loop-punching mechanism and shape of helium bubbles in tungsten

J Ren, H Xie, F Yin, Y Lu, G Lu - Materials Today Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present work, the growth of helium bubble at Σ3 (112)[110], Σ5 (013)[100] and Σ13
(015)[100] three grain boundaries in tungsten is studied using molecular dynamics …

[图书][B] Surface response of tungsten to helium and hydrogen plasma flux as a function of temperature and incident kinetic energy

F Sefta - 2013 - search.proquest.com
Tungsten is a leading candidate material for the diverter in future nuclear fusion reactors.
Previous experiments have demonstrated that surface defects and bubbles form in tungsten …

The growth and release of helium bubbles near tungsten surface studied with molecular dynamics simulations

Y Zhou, C Yuan, T Li, X Tao, Y Ouyang - Nuclear Instruments and Methods …, 2019 - Elsevier
The growth and release processes of helium bubbles near tungsten surface have been
investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The results indicate that the surface …

Changes in Dislocation Punching Behavior Due to Hydrogen-Seeded Helium Bubble Growth in Tungsten

P Hatton, D Perez, BP Uberuaga - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06080, 2024 - arxiv.org
The accumulation of gas atoms in tungsten is a topic of long-standing interest to the plasma-
facing materials community due the metal's use as a divertor material in some tokamak …

A new loop-punching mechanism for helium bubble growth in tungsten

H Xie, N Gao, K Xu, GH Lu, T Yu, F Yin - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Growth of helium (He) bubbles with different initial sizes in tungsten (W) has been
investigated by performing molecular dynamics simulations. Based on the simulation results …

A molecular dynamics study on bubble growth in tungsten under helium irradiation

R Kobayashi, T Hattori, T Tamura, S Ogata - Journal of nuclear materials, 2015 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics simulation has been performed to investigate the effects of irradiated
helium atoms in tungsten on the bubble nucleation and the dislocation loop formation …