A review: applications of the phase field method in predicting microstructure and property evolution of irradiated nuclear materials

Y Li, S Hu, X Sun, M Stan - npj Computational Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Complex microstructure changes occur in nuclear fuel and structural materials due to the
extreme environments of intense irradiation and high temperature. This paper evaluates the …

Recent studies on void shrinkage in metallic materials subjected to in situ heavy ion irradiations

T Niu, M Nasim, RGS Annadanam, C Fan, J Li… - Jom, 2020 - Springer
The continuous formation and growth of voids induced by radiations in metallic materials
may lead to significant microstructure damage and degradation of mechanical properties. In …

Formation and self-organization of void superlattices under irradiation: A phase field study

Y Gao, Y Zhang, D Schwen, C Jiang, C Sun, J Gan - Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Self-organized patterns, realized in non-equilibrium processes, have been widely observed
in physics and chemistry. As a powerful tool to create far-from-equilibrium environments …

How to apply the phase field method to model radiation damage

MR Tonks, A Cheniour, L Aagesen - Computational Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The phase field (PF) method provides a valuable means of predicting radiation induced
microstructure evolution of domains ranging roughly from 100 nm to 100 μm in size and for …

Phase field modeling for grain growth in porous solids

K Ahmed, T Allen, A El-Azab - Journal of Materials Science, 2016 - Springer
Concurrent evolution of grain size and porosity in solids is a technically important problem
involving curvature-driven motion of grain boundaries and the pore motion by surface …

Irradiation induced void spheroidization, shrinkage and migration in Cu at elevated temperatures: An in situ study

C Fan, RGS Annadanam, Z Shang, J Li, M Li, H Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the void evolution in irradiation environment is of great interest and
significance, as irradiation-induced voids typically lead to pronounced volumetric swelling …

Unraveling the size fluctuation and shrinkage of nanovoids during in situ radiation of Cu by automatic pattern recognition and phase field simulation

M Nasim, S Rayaprolu, T Niu, C Fan, Z Shang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
Void formation is an important aspect of irradiation response of metals. In situ transmission
electron microscopy observation for void evolution during irradiation is an effective …

A rate-theory–phase-field model of irradiation-induced recrystallization in UMo nuclear fuels

S Hu, V Joshi, CA Lavender - Jom, 2017 - Springer
In this work, we developed a recrystallization model to study the effect of microstructures and
radiation conditions on recrystallization kinetics in UMo fuels. The model integrates the rate …

Three-dimensional phase-field simulations of intragranular gas bubble evolution in irradiated U-Mo fuel

L Liang, ZG Mei, YS Kim, M Anitescu… - Computational Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
The evolution of fission gas bubbles in irradiated materials plays a critical role in the
microstructural processes that leads to dimensional changes of U-Mo alloy fuels, eg, fuel …

High-throughput assessment of vacancy formation and surface energies of materials using classical force-fields

K Choudhary, AJ Biacchi, S Ghosh… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we present an open access database for surface and vacancy-formation
energies using classical force-fields (FFs). These quantities are essential in understanding …