Uncertainty quantification of solute transport coefficients

Ravi Agarwal, Dallas R. Trinkle

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Abstract

Solute transport controls a wide variety of both material properties and processing, and computational prediction of transport coefficients plays an increasingly important role in materials design. First-principles methods can routinely compute both defect energies and transition states to provide the atomic-scale information for transport, but scaling up to mesoscale solute mobility requires the solution of the master equation. Kinetic Monte Carlo provides one route to computing transport coefficients, but the stochastic solution to the master equation can make uncertainty quantification difficult. The use of Green functions to compute solute mobilities offers an alternate approach; in addition to being accurate and computationally efficient, the deterministic solution permits the use of a Bayesian framework for uncertainty quantification. In this case, uncertainties in first-principles energies and energy barriers can be propagated forward into uncertainties in mobilities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUncertainty Quantification in Multiscale Materials Modeling
PublisherElsevier
Pages93-118
Number of pages26
ISBN (Electronic)9780081029411
ISBN (Print)9780081029428
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2020

Keywords

  • Density functional theory
  • Diffusion
  • Mass transport
  • Uncertainty quantification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering
  • General Chemical Engineering

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