A multiphysics model for studying transient crevice corrosion of stainless steel

Jiawei Ding^1,2，Haitao Wang¹，En-Hou Han¹

1. CAS Key Laboratory of Nuclear Materials and Safety Assessment, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China

摘 要：The transient crevice corrosion behavior of 304 stainless steel in NaCl solution has been investigated by a multiphysics coupling model.The model considers local electrochemical reactions,transport of diffe rent species,and homogeneous reactions.The moving mesh method is used to obtain the geometrical change of the crevice wall with time due to corrosion.The level set method is employed to quantitatively describe the influence of the precipitation process on electrochemical reactions.The transient crevice corrosion morphology,potential and current distributions,and pH and chloride ion concentration distributions are obtained by simulation.The effect of crevice geometry factors on the corrosion process is also discussed.The simulation results are in good agreement with the experiments,showing that the model has high reliability.

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