Reason
Shimada et al. in 2010 published a first-result study of deuterium retention in neutron-irradiated tungsten exposed to high flux plasma. In this project, tungsten samples were irradiated in HFIR and then exposed to a deuterium plasma in the Tritium Plasma Experiment at INL. In the paper, they used TMAP7 to validate against thermal desorption spectroscopy measurements for both unirradiated and irradiated tungsten samples.
This validation case will benchmark against the previous TMAP7 results, and then utillize new TMAP8 capabilities to improve upon the validation results.
Design
Construct a deuterium diffusion and trapping simulation based on the above paper. We will base this on val-2a, adding in features discussed in val-2d, val-2f, and (in-development) val-2i.
Impact
A new validation case for TMAP8.
Reason
Shimada et al. in 2010 published a first-result study of deuterium retention in neutron-irradiated tungsten exposed to high flux plasma. In this project, tungsten samples were irradiated in HFIR and then exposed to a deuterium plasma in the Tritium Plasma Experiment at INL. In the paper, they used TMAP7 to validate against thermal desorption spectroscopy measurements for both unirradiated and irradiated tungsten samples.
This validation case will benchmark against the previous TMAP7 results, and then utillize new TMAP8 capabilities to improve upon the validation results.
Design
Construct a deuterium diffusion and trapping simulation based on the above paper. We will base this on val-2a, adding in features discussed in val-2d, val-2f, and (in-development) val-2i.
Impact
A new validation case for TMAP8.