Advanced Hybrid Ceramics for Nuclear and Hydrogen Energy Applications

I Sadiq, S Asim Ali, T Ahmad - ChemistrySelect, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global energy crisis has encouraged the need for sustainable energy resources, which is
the viable alternate of providing effective energy operations and considered as remedy for …

Crystal plasticity-phase–field based analyses of interfacial microstructural evolution during dynamic recrystallization in a dual phase titanium alloy

R Chatterjee, A Trivedi, SVSN Murty… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, an integrated crystal plasticity finite element–phase–field (CPFE–PF) model is
developed to examine dynamic recrystallization (DRX) in a dual phase Ti alloy. The CP …

Effect of grain size on irradiation-induced bubble evolution in high burn-up UO2: A phase-field study

Y Jiang, Y La, X Liu, W Liu - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to economic reasons, uranium dioxide (UO 2) ceramic fuel needs to operate under high
burn-up conditions. The high burn-up structure (HBS) and micrometric irradiation-induced …

Hyperstoichiometric uranium dioxides: rapid synthesis and irradiation-induced structural changes

JM Roach, KV Manukyan, A Majumdar… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Uranium dioxide (UO2), the primary fuel for commercial nuclear reactors, incorporates
excess oxygen forming a series of hyperstoichiometric oxides. Thin layers of these oxides …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of dislocation boundary spacings and stored energy on boundary migration during recrystallization: A phase-field analysis

V Yadav, N Moelans, Y Zhang, DJ Jensen - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The local migration of recrystallization boundaries into spatially varying deformation fields
which are typical for metals deformed to low and high strains is investigated using …

[HTML][HTML] A new model for the effective thermal conductivity of polycrystalline solids

F Badry, K Ahmed - AIP advances, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce a novel model for the effective thermal conductivity of polycrystalline solids
based on the thin-interface description of grain boundaries (GBs). In contrast to existing …

Irradiation-Driven Restructuring of UO2 Thin Films: Amorphization and Crystallization

A Majumdar, KV Manukyan, S Dede… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Combustion synthesis in uranyl nitrate–acetylacetone–2-methoxyethanol solutions was
used to deposit thin UO2 films on aluminum substrates to investigate the irradiation-induced …

Characterization of the finite element computational fluid dynamics capabilities in the multiphysics object oriented simulation environment

AG Weiss, LJ Zaidan… - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The multiphysics object-oriented simulation environment (moose) is a code package that
couples a variety of physics modules, allowing for highly accessible multiphysics …

Irradiation-induced amorphization of UO2 films prepared by spraying-assisted combustion synthesis

S Dede, KV Manukyan, JM Roach, A Majumdar… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Spraying-assisted combustion synthesis with uranyl nitrate− acetylacetone− 2-
methoxyethanol solutions was used to prepare UO 2 films on an aluminum alloy substrate …

Scalable feature tracking for finite element meshes demonstrated with a novel phase-field grain subdivision model

CJ Permann, AM Jokisaari, MR Tonks… - Nuclear …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The ability to identify features within finite element simulations and track them over time is
necessary for understanding and quantifying complex behaviors as disparate as turbulent …