Programme
The programme will consist of lectures on methods and techniques, as well as of case studies on issues of interests for the nuclear materials field.
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Lectures
- Introduction to Nuclear Materials Science (NMS)
- Multiscale modelling in NMS
- Electronic structure theory and specificities for nuclear materials
- Semi-empirical models and approximations
- Machine Learning in NMS
- Molecular dynamics using empirical or quantum forces
- Kinetic Monte Carlo modelling
- Nano-to-macroscale modelling of mechanical properties
- Calphad modelling
- Fuel performance codes
- Electron microscopy in NMS
- Positron annihilation spectroscopy in NMS
- Diffraction techniques
- Atom probe tomography in NMS
- Laser heating techniques
- Ion irradiations
- Characterization of gas and solute behaviour using TDS and SIMS
Case studies
- Modelling-oriented experiments: How to design experiments to validate models
- Experiment-oriented modelling: How to use theory to improve experiments
- Transport properties
- Margin to fuel melting
- Radiation damage / microstructure evolution in struct materials
- Thermochemical properties
- Creep and mechanical evolution