About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Algorithm Development in Materials Science and Engineering
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| Presentation Title |
Calculating Cluster Diffusion Coefficients from Interatomic Potentials |
| Author(s) |
Craig Daniels, Thomas Schuler, Pascal Bellon, Robert Averback |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Craig Daniels |
| Abstract Scope |
KineCluE is a recently developed open-source software for calculating Onsager transport coefficients of small defect-solute clusters based on self-consistent mean field theory (SCMF). Using this tool requires the input of a few to over thousands of energy levels for the relevant configurations and saddle-points. We developed an interface to automate the calculation of the required energy levels of vacancy-solute clusters using NEB and interatomic potentials in LAMMPS. We combine this with a low-temperature expansion approximation of cluster concentrations to describe multi-cluster transport coefficients for an FCC Cu-Ag system and a BCC Fe-Cu system. Both systems demonstrate the importance of including appropriate clusters to model the full transport behavior. We also compare Fe-Cu cluster diffusivity calculated by KineCluE with results calculated from KMC simulations parameterized with the same interatomic potential. They show good agreement, and we confirm and quantify the prediction that tri-vacancy-solute clusters can contribute significantly to solute diffusion. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Nuclear Materials |