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Fluoride salts demonstrate significant potential for applications in next-generation nuclear reactors, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of their thermophysical properties for technological advancements. Experimental measurement…
Molten fluorides are known to show favorable thermophysical properties which make them good candidate coolants for nuclear fission reactors. Here we investigate the special case of mixtures of lithium fluoride and thorium fluoride, which…
The study focuses on the steady-state thermohydraulic behavior of the LiF-BeF2 (FLiBe) molten salt flowing through a compact heat exchanger with multi louvered fins in the cooling loop of a Molten Salt Reactor (MSR). This numerical…
We present a combined computational and experimental investigation of the thermal properties of uranium nitride (UN), focusing on the development of a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) using the moment tensor potential (MTP)…
We developed a method for fitting machine-learning interatomic potentials with magnetic degrees of freedom, namely, magnetic Moment Tensor Potentials (mMTP). The main feature of our method consists in fitting mMTP to magnetic forces…
The design of efficient electrolysis devices for pure metal production requires accurate data on the properties of the melts used in the process. This work focuses on two key systems for calcium production: the molten Ca-Cu alloy and the…
The properties of lithium metal are key parameters in the design of lithium ion and lithium metal batteries. They are difficult to probe experimentally due to the high reactivity and low melting point of lithium as well as the microscopic…
Ti-N material system have range of compounds with different stoichiometry like Ti2N, Ti3N2, Ti6N5, Ti4N3 alongwith Ti , TiN and solid solutions of N in Ti with a maximum of 23% solubility. In this work, we develop an interatomic potential…
Calculations of heat transport in crystalline materials have recently become mainstream, thanks to machine-learned interatomic potentials that allow for significant computational cost reductions while maintaining the accuracy of…
Molten salts are crucial for clean energy applications, yet exploring their thermophysical properties across diverse chemical space remains challenging. We present the development of a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) called…
A recently proposed class of machine-learning interatomic potentials --- Moment tensor potentials (MTPs) --- is investigated in this work. MTPs are able to actively select configurations and parametrize the potential on-the-fly. It is shown…
The growing interest in energy applications of molten salts is justified by several of their properties. Their possibilities of usage as a coolant, heat transfer fluid or heat storage substrate, require thermo-hydrodynamic refined…
We have recently developed a breakthrough methodology for rapidly computing entropy in both solids and liquids by integrating a multiscale entropy approach (known as zentropy theory) with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. This approach…
Dual-phase $\gamma$-TiAl and $\alpha_2$-Ti$_{3}$Al alloys exhibit high strength and creep resistance at high temperatures. However, they suffer from low tensile ductility and fracture toughness at room temperature. Experimental studies show…
This paper presents results from systematic investigations conducted in the HYPERION facility to quantify permeabilities of hydrogen isotopes in FLiBe over a temperature range of 773K - 973K. To address the knowledge gap resulting from…
Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) are a modern computational method that allows achieving near-quantum mechanical accuracy (DFT) while still describing large-scale systems in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In this work,…
Precise prediction of phase diagrams in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is challenging due to the simultaneous need for long time scales, large length scales and accurate interatomic potentials. We show that thermodynamic integration…
Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are an increasingly popular choice for atomistic simulations due to their high fidelity and improvable nature. Here, we propose a hybrid small-cell approach that combines attributes of both offline and…
In nuclear and/or solar applications that involve molten salts, impurities frequently enter the salt as either fission products or via corrosion. Impurities can interact and make complexes, but the impact of such complexation on the…
Medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) such as CoCrFeNi and CoCrNi are promising structural materials owing to their outstanding mechanical and thermal properties, which arise from complex chemical disorder and atomic-scale interactions. Although…