Tag: nuclear fusion
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Mari won the poster prize at SOFT2018 conference
Mrs Marigrazia Moscardini won the poster prize at the 30th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2018) held in Giardini Naxos (Messina, Sicily) for presenting a joint work between Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and The University of Sydney on fusion materials, with the title of “Discrete element code to simulate the heat transfer inside ceramic breeder…
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Paper online (Fusion Eng. Design) on thermal DEM with Smoluchowski effect
Moscardini, M., Gan, Y., Pupeschi, S., Kamlah, M. (2018) Discrete element method for effective thermal conductivity of packed pebbles accounting for the Smoluchowski effect. Fusion Engineering and Design. 127: 192-201. [DOI][PDF:050_FED_2018] Highlights • A thermal DEM code is proposed for the evaluation of the effective thermal conductivity of ceramic breeder pebble beds. • The Smoluchowski effect…
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Paper online (Fusion Eng. Des.) on ellipsoidal DEM
Moscardinia, M., Gan, Y., Annabattula, R.K., Kamlah M. (2017) A Discrete Element Method to simulate the mechanical behavior of ellipsoidal particles for a fusion breeding blanket. Fusion Engineering and Design. 121: 22-31. [DOI][PDF:046_FED_2017_M] Abstract: The breeder materials proposed for the solid tritium breeding blanket concepts are ceramic lithium-based compounds in the form of pebble beds. Different fabrication…
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Paper accepted (Fusion Eng. Des.) on effective thermal conductivity
Title: Influence of gas pressure on the effective thermal conductivity of ceramic breeder pebble beds Author(s): Weijing Dai, Simone Pupeschi, Dorian Hanaor, Yixiang Gan Fusion Engineering and Design, in press. [DOI][PDF:045_FED_2017] Figure: Gas pressure related size dependency of the contact units. Abstract: Lithium ceramics have been considered as tritium breeder materials in many proposed designs…
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Visitors from KIT
Mr Simone Pupeschi and Mrs Marigrazia Mascardini are visiting us from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany from Jan to April, 2017. They have previously visited us in 2015, with the photo attached from their last visit. Simone and Mari are two final-year PhD students at KIT and have been working on thermo-mechanical behaviour of tritium breeder…
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Manuscript accepted (FED)
A manuscript has been accepted by Fusion Engineering and Design, summarising Simone’s work during his stay at The University of Sydney, funded by a Go8-DAAD project. Simone is working at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Pupeschi, S., Knitter, R., Kamlah, M., Gan, Y. (2016) Numerical and experimental characterization of ceramic pebble beds under cycling mechanical loading. Fusion…
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Article online, Journal of Nuclear Mateirals
Dorian Hanaor, Matthias Kolb, Yixiang Gan, Marc Kamlah, Regina Knitter (2014). Solution based synthesis of mixed-phase materials in the Li2TiO3 -Li4SiO4 system. Journal of Nuclear Materials (in press). DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.09.028 Figure: XRD pattern for hydroxide-route-synthesised material of L3TS composition subsequent to drying at 180°C. (b) Temperature varied XRD for hydroxide route synthesised L3TS material. From front towards…
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Paper online (FST)
Gan, Y., Hernandez, F., Hanaor, D., Annabattula, R., Kamlah, M., & Pereslavtsev, P. (2014). Thermal Discrete Element Analysis of EU Solid Breeder Blanket Subjected to Neutron Irradiation. Fusion Science and Technology, 66(1), 83-90. [DOI] Annabattula, R. K., Kolb, M., Gan, Y., Rolli, R., & Kamlah, M. (2014). Size-Dependent Crush Analysis of Lithium Orthosilicate Pebbles. Fusion Science and Technology, 66(1),…