Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation (TETI)
Director
David Hurley
Lead Institution
Idaho National Laboratory
Class
2018-2022
Mission
To provide the foundational work necessary to accurately model and ultimately control electron- and phonon-mediated thermal transport in 5f-electron materials in extreme irradiation environments.
Research Topics
optics, phonons, thermal conductivity, nuclear, defects, magnetism and spin physics, mesoscale science, mesostructured materials
Systems Studied
Systems: metal, oxide, ceramic, actinide
Interfaces: gas/solid, solid/solid
Nanostructured: None
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, neutron diffraction and scattering, neutron spectroscopy, electron microscopy, surface science, ultrafast science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), monte carlo (MC), continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling
Partner Institutions
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Columbia University
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Ohio State University
- Purdue University
- University of Central Florida
