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Thermal-hydraulic behaviour of the DEMO divertor plasma facing components cooling circuit
- Source :
- Fusion Engineering and Design
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Within the framework of the Work Package DIV 1 – “Divertor Cassette Design and Integration” of the EUROfusion action, a research campaign has been jointly carried out by ENEA and University of Palermo to investigate the thermal-hydraulic performances of the DEMO divertor cassette cooling system. A comparative evaluation study has been performed considering three different options for the cooling circuit layout of the divertor Plasma Facing Components (PFCs). The potential improvement in the thermal-hydraulic performance of the cooling system, to be achieved by modifying cooling circuit layout, has been also assessed and discussed in terms of optimization strategy. The research activity has been carried out following a theoretical-computational approach based on the finite volume method and adopting a qualified Computational Fluid-Dynamic (CFD) code. Results obtained are reported and critically discussed.
- Subjects :
- Work package
Computer science
Hydraulics
Nuclear engineering
Computational fluid dynamics
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
law.invention
Thermal hydraulics
Materials Science(all)
law
0103 physical sciences
Water cooling
General Materials Science
010306 general physics
Settore ING-IND/19 - Impianti Nucleari
Civil and Structural Engineering
Finite volume method
business.industry
Mechanical Engineering
Divertor
DEMO, Divertor, Plasma Facing Components, CFD analysis, Hydraulics
Plasma
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fusion Engineering and Design
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....99e0993b8cb4597f751d0c0cb9815155