期刊
JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
卷 529, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151929
关键词
Uranium-zirconium; Metallic fuel; Phase-field; Sensitivity analysis; MARMOT
资金
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) from Idaho National Laboratory [16-046]
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC07-05ID14517]
Interest in U-Zr metallic nuclear fuels has been on the rise, but sparsity in the available diffusion data continues to hinder efforts to model irradiation behaviors like constituent redistribution. In the current work, we develop a quantitative phase-field model for the influential beta and gamma phases of U-Zr and use it to reexamine data from a published diffusion couple experiment. We optimize the two phases' kinetic parameters and use annealing simulations to show that the optimized model produces more accurate predictions than those obtained using the diffusion parameters currently employed by constituent redistribution models. We then demonstrate how to minimize the impact of user-defined model parameters such that the parameters based on experimental data dominate the model's response. Sensitivity analysis studies confirmed that the phases' kinetic parameters are more influential than the interface energy for this type of problem, and gamma phase kinetics were found to be more impactful than beta phase kinetics. This observation is believed to be related to differences in phases' solubility ranges and diffusion-limiting behaviors. These findings and the interpretive modeling technique employed in the current work will increase the efficiency of the data collection efforts necessary to reduce uncertainties in U-Zr diffusion parameters, expediting further fuel development. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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