R. W. Eardley A. J. Dubas A. Davis
While substantial research effort has been made recently in the development of computational liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solvers, this has typically been confined to closed-source and commercial codes. This work aimed to investigate some open-source alternatives. Two OpenFOAM-based MHD solvers, mhdFoam and epotFoam, were found to sho…
PreprintMia Maric Rhys Thomas Tamas Ungar Gyula Zilahi Callum Hunt David Lunt Jack Donoghue Kieran Lynch Philipp Frankel Pierre Barberis Florent Bourlier Michael Preuss Pratheek Shanthraj
Hydride precipitation and reorientation has the potential to embrittle zirconium alloys. This study aims to better understand the influence of the Zr microstructure on hydride precipitation and reorientation. Specifically, the crystallography, phase stability and morphology of hydride precipitation was correlated to microstructural variations due t…
Preprint PurchaseK. G. McClements C. Hunt R. O. Dendy G. A. Cottrell
Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) excited by collective instability of fusion a particles has been observed during deuterium-tritium experiments with radio-frequency heating and neutral beam injection (NBI) in the Joint European Torus. A model based on classical a-particle confinement is broadly consistent with this data. ICE spectra from discharges wit…
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