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Hydraulic analysis of EU-DEMO divertor plasma facing components cooling circuit under nominal operating scenarios
- Source :
- Fusion Engineering and Design
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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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 University of Palermo and ENEA to investigate the steady state thermal-hydraulic behaviour of the DEMO divertor cassette cooling circuit, focussing the attention on its Plasma Facing Components (PFCs). The research campaign has been carried out following a theoretical-computational approach based on the Finite Volume Method and adopting the commercial Computational Fluid-Dynamic code ANSYS-CFX. A realistic model of the PFCs cooling circuit has been analysed, specifically embedding each Plasma Facing Unit (PFU) cooling channel with the foreseen swirl tape turbulence promoter, hence resulting in a finite volume model much more detailed than those assessed in previous analyses. Its thermal-hydraulic performances have been numerically evaluated under nominal steady state conditions, also comparing the obtained results with the corresponding outcomes of analogous analyses carried out for a simplified PFCs configuration, without swirl tapes. Moreover, the main thermal-hydraulic parameters have been evaluated in order to check whether the considered PFCs cooling circuit might fulfil the total pressure drop requirement (Δp 1.4). The PFCs cooling circuit thermal-hydraulic behaviour has been additionally assessed at alternative operative conditions, issued to check the viability of a coolant velocity reduction, in order to minimize corrosion and vibrations inside the PFU channels. Models, loads and boundary conditions assumed for the analyses are herewith reported and critically discussed, together with the main results obtained.
- Subjects :
- Nuclear engineering
CFD analysis
DEMO
Divertor
Plasma facing components
Thermofluid-dynamics
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
0103 physical sciences
General Materials Science
Boundary value problem
CFD analysi
Total pressure
010306 general physics
Settore ING-IND/19 - Impianti Nucleari
Civil and Structural Engineering
Finite volume method
Steady state
Turbulence
Mechanical Engineering
Plasma facing component
Coolant
Vibration
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Environmental science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09203796
- Volume :
- 146
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fusion Engineering and Design
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f66ee0b472176d7d5fc3ffbd14ed154