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Project
Ab intio screening of suitable tungsten alloys as first wall material in nuclear fusion reactors
Usually a material is extensively modelled in order to understand and improve its properties. This project works the other way round. A screening of a large number of materials will be executed in search of the right characteristics. We will focus on the most promising candidates. A test-case concerns optimal tungsten alloys for first wall materials in fusion reactors.
Date:1 Oct 2010 → 30 Sep 2014
Keywords:density functional theory, nuclear fusion, material modelling, tungsten alloy
Disciplines:Ceramic and glass materials, Metallurgical engineering, Materials science and engineering, Condensed matter physics and nanophysics, Other materials engineering, Semiconductor materials