Lei Tang Kun Yan Biao Cai Yiqiang Wang Bin Liu Saurabh Kabra Moataz M Attallah Yong Liu
Deformation mechanisms of high entropy alloys (HEAs) at cryogenic temperatures have attracted extensive research interest. We used in situ neutron diffraction to study the tensile behavior of a face-centered- cubic HEA at 77 and 15 K and compared its stacking fault energy (SFE) at ambient and cryogenic temperatures. The SFE dropped from 28 mJm −2…
PublishedJack Reid Greg Bailey Edmund Cracknell Mark Gilbert Lee Packer
For either nuclear fusion or generation IV fission reactors to be viable as a commercial energy source the decommissioning and waste disposal solutions must be considered during the design. A multi-step simulation process combining Monte Carlo Neutron Transport simulations with inventory simulations have been performed to estimate the activa…
PreprintJan Fikar Robin Schaeublin Daniel R. Mason Duc Nguyen-Manh
The vacancies produced in high energy collision cascades of irradiated tungsten can form vacancy clusters or prismatic vacancy dislocation loops. Moreover, vacancy loops can easily transform into planar vacancy clusters. We investigated the formation energies of these three types of vacancy defects as a function of the number of vacancies using thr…
PublishedRuben Otin Wouter Tierens Felix Parra Shafa Aria Ernesto Lerche Philippe Jacquet Igor Monakhov Pierre Dumortie Bart Van Compernolle JET Contributors
When RF waves are applied in tokamaks with metal walls, sheath rectification effects associated with the fields induced in the scrape-off layer (SOL) may lead to enhanced plasma-wall interactions (i.e. heat-loads in the limiters, RF-induced impurity sources) which can endanger the integrity of the machine and limit the RF power. Although many co…
Preprint PublishedCarmen Makepeace
Fuel retention in the JET-ITER like wall (JET-ILW) has decreased by a factor of 20 compared to operation with a carbon wall [1]. The reduction in retention is due largely to the decrease in chemical erosion of the beryllium main chamber. A reduction in co-deposition of fuel with beryllium has previously been reported in the divertor [2]. However…
Preprint PublishedS. Elmore A. J. Thornton R. Scannell A. Kirk the MAST Team
Understanding the plasma parameters that affect the scrape off layer (SOL) width is a key issue for future tokamaks as the power entering the SOL (of order 100 MW [1] in ITER) and the SOL width (of order millimetres [2]) determine the heat flux to the divertor surfaces. The Eich scaling [2] can be used to characterise the divertor heat flux prof…
Preprint PublishedYichen Qian Mark R. Gilbert Lucile Dezerald Duc Nguyen-Manh David Cereceda
Tungsten (W) is considered a leading candidate for structural and functional materials in future fusion energy devices. The most attractive properties of tungsten for magnetic and inertial fusion energy reactors are its high melting point, high thermal conductivity, low sputtering yield, and low long-term disposal radioactive footprint. However, t…
Preprint PublishedJulita Inca Andrew Davis Aleksander Dubas
Preconditioners are meant to improve both, the efficiency and robustness of iterative techniques while solving very large linear systems on a Krylov subspace. However, determining which preconditioner is suitable to be applied on a certain multiphysic simulation requires a combination of knowledge of preconditioning matrices techniques, types of ma…
PreprintJ.F. Rivero-Rodriguez J. Galdon-Quiroga J. Dominguez-Palacios M. Garcia-Muñoz D. Garcia-Vallejo J. Gonzalez-Martin K. McClements L. Sanchis K. Sarkimaki A. Snicker Y. Todo L. Velarde E. Viezzer
Observations of enhanced fast-ion losses during edge localized modes (ELMs) have been reported in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, revealing losses above the injection energy. This suggests that fast ions can be accelerated and lost by the ELMs. Recent analysis delves into the analysis of the ELM-induced losses, suggesting that the fast ions are los…
Preprint PublishedO. Vallhagen I. Pusztai P. Helander S. L. Newton T. Fülöp
Pellet injection is used for fuelling and controlling discharges in tokamaks, and it is foreseen in ITER. During pellet injection, a movement of the ablated material towards the low-field side (or outward major radius direction) occurs because of the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field. Due to the complexity of the theoretical models, computer…
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