Heat transfer to a heavy liquid metal in curved geometry: Code validation and CFD simulation for the MEGAPIE lower target

Details Heat transfer to a heavy liquid metal in curved geometry: Code validation and CFD simulation for the MEGAPIE lower target Heat transfer to a heavy liquid metal in curved geometry: Code validation and CFD simulation for the MEGAPIE lower target

Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006nimpa.562..859d&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 562, Issue 2, p. 859-862.

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Neutron Sources, Analytical And Numerical Techniques, Forced Convection

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The ESS and SINQ Heat Emitting Temperature Sensing Surface (HETSS) mercury experiments have been used to validate the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code CFX-4 employed in designing the lower region of the international liquid metal cooled MEGAPIE target, to be installed at SINQ, PSI, in 2006. Conclusions were drawn on the best turbulence models and degrees of mesh refinement to apply, and a new CFD model of the MEGAPIE geometry was made, based on the CATIA CAD design of the exact geometry constructed. This model contained the fill and drain tubes as well as the bypass feed duct, with the differences in relative vertical length due to thermal expansion being considered between these tubes and the window. Results of the mercury experiments showed that CFD calculations can be trusted to give peak target window temperature under normal operational conditions to within about ±10%. The target nozzle actually constructed varied from the theoretical design model used for CFD due to the need to apply more generous separation distances between the nozzle and the window. In addition, the bypass duct contraction approaching the nozzle exit was less sharp compared with earlier designs. Both of these changes modified the bypass jet penetration and coverage of the heated window zone. Peak external window temperature with a 1.4 mA proton beam and steady-state operation is now predicted to be 375 °C, with internal temperature 354.0 °C (about 32 °C above earlier predictions). Increasing bypass flow from 2.5 to 3.0 kg/s lowers these peak temperatures by about 12 °C. Stress analysis still needs to be made, based on these thermal data.

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