Kinetics of helium bubble formation in nuclear materials

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2006.07.029zbMATH Open1139.82351arXivcond-mat/0607833OpenAlexW1993851528MaRDI QIDQ852905FDOQ852905

Authors: L. L. Bonilla, W. G. Wolfer, Ana Carpio, John C. Neu 

Publication date: 15 November 2006

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The formation and growth of helium bubbles due to self-irradiation in plutonium has been modelled by a discrete kinetic equations for the number densities of bubbles having $k$ atoms. Analysis of these equations shows that the bubble size distribution function can be approximated by a composite of: (i) the solution of partial differential equations describing the continuum limit of the theory but corrected to take into account the effects of discreteness, and (ii) a local expansion about the advancing leading edge of the distribution function in size space. Both approximations contribute to the memory term in a close integrodifferential equation for the monomer concentration of single helium atoms. The present boundary layer theory for discrete equations is compared to the numerical solution of the full kinetic model and to previous approximation of Schaldach and Wolfer involving a truncated system of moment equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607833

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zbMATH Keywords

helium bubblesboundary layers for discrete equationsdiscrete kinetic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21) Nuclear reactor theory; neutron transport (82D75)

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• Asymptotic solutions of the Becker–Döring equations with size-dependent rate constants

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