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Inertia and LLNL accelerate fuel manufacturing
Inertia Enterprises and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a manufacturing process for the thin layer of cryogenically frozen deuterium-tritium (D-T) used in its target design, reducing production time from days to hours, according to the company.
The advance makes target fueling cheaper and reduces the amount of tritium that Inertia would need to hold at a pilot plant, which lowers material handling costs, regulatory burden, and dependence on scarce fuel inventories.
S. Beetham, J. Capecelatro
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 12 | December 2023 | Pages 1977-1986
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2178251
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Turbulence in two-phase flows drives many important natural and engineering processes, from geophysical flows to nuclear power generation. Strong interphase coupling between the carrier fluid and disperse phase precludes the use of classical turbulence models developed for single-phase flows. In recent years, there has been an explosion of machine learning techniques for turbulence closure modeling, though many rely on augmenting existing models. In this work, we propose an approach that blends sparse regression and gene expression programming (GEP) to generate closed-form algebraic models from simulation data. Sparse regression is used to determine a minimum set of functional groups required to capture the physics, and GEP is used to automate the formulation of the coefficients and dependencies on operating conditions. The framework is demonstrated on homogeneous turbulent gas-particle flows in which two-way coupling generates and sustains carrier-phase turbulence.