Materials Design today announced a "Fusion Alliance" to advance multiscale materials modeling for high-performance materials in fusion machines.
The Fusion Alliance brings together global industrial, governmental, and academic organizations to facilitate access to materials modeling software, to foster knowledge transfer, to prioritize new method developments in areas of critical need, and to offer a pre-competitive forum for the exchange of know-how related to fusion materials modeling. As part of the Alliance, Materials Design is ready to engage in specific materials modeling research projects with Alliance partners.
Materials Design is a pioneer in the development and application of advanced modeling software for nuclear materials. Joint publications with organizations including Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) are a testimony of our long-term commitment to this critical area of materials research and engineering. We are building on success: the Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP), which is part of the Fusion Alliance software offering, has been quoted in more than 800 publications related to nuclear fusion. Materials Design has many years of experience in the deployment of machine learning technology, especially for nuclear materials. Advanced finite element approaches in the form of chemo-mechanical phase field technology, recently developed by Materials Design, provide the connection to engineering scales.
Materials Design Chief Science Officer and Chairman of the Board Dr. Erich Wimmer said “We are on the cusp of an energy revolution where humankind could harness the power of fusion for a sheer unlimited energy supply. A key obstacle is the lack of materials to satisfy the extreme operating requirements of a commercially viable fusion power plant. Processes such as neutron damage, microstructure evolution, phase transformations, heat transfer, and tritium breeding and management, are all amenable to computational modeling, thus shortening the time to optimal materials and amplifying the value of expensive and time-consuming experiments."
Amanda Quadling, Executive Director – Materials, at UKAEA, adds: “Materials Modelling is an essential part of the UK Fusion Materials Roadmap. Through our collaboration with Materials Design experts, we have been able to make significant breakthroughs in predicting mesoscale phenomena for neutron-exposed materials in application”.
About Materials Design, Inc.
Materials Design, Inc. is the leading atomistic simulation software and services company for materials. We help customers across many diverse industries design new materials, predict their properties, and generate value through innovation.
For more information, please contact Katherine Hollingsworth at khollingsworth@materialsdesign.com
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