MHD and heat transfer considerations for the US DCLL blanket for DEMO and ITER TBM

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 83, Issue 10-12, 2008, Pages 1788-1791

  Smolentsev, Sergey ^a   Morley, Neil B ^a   Wong, Clement ^b   Abdou, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

DCLL blanket; Flow channel insert; Heat transfer; MHD pressure drop

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; DROPS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; HELIUM; INERT GASES; LEAD; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; PRESSURE DROP; THERMOANALYSIS;

DCLL BLANKET; EUTECTIC ALLOYS; FERRITIC STRUCTURES; FLOW CHANNEL INSERT; HEAT LEAKAGES; HELIUM FLOWS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; INTERFACE TEMPERATURES; ITER SCENARIOS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD); MATERIAL INTERFACES; MHD PRESSURE DROP;

EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS;

EID: 56949103938     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Wong C.P.C., Malang S., Sawan M., Dagher M., Smolentsev S., Merrill B., Youssef M., Reyes S., Sze D.K., Morley N.B., Sharafat S., Calderoni P., Sviatoslavsky G., Kurtz R., Fogarty P., Zinkle S., and Abdou M. An overview of Dual Coolant Pb-17Li breeder first wall and blanket concept development for the US ITER-TBM design. Fusion Eng. Des. 81 (2006) 461-467
2. Wong C.P.C., Malang S., Sawan M., Smolentsev S., Majumdar S., Merrill B., Sze D.K., Morley N., Sharafat S., Dagher M., Peterson P., Zhao H., Zinkle S.J., Abdou M., and Youssef M. Assessment of first wall and blanket options with the use of liquid breeder. Fusion Sci. Technol. 47 (2005) 502-509
3. Smolentsev S., Abdou M., Morley N.B., Sawan M., Malang S., and Wong C. Numerical analysis of MHD flow and heat transfer in a poloidal channel of the DCLL blanket with a SiCf/SiC flow channel insert. Fusion Eng. Des. 81 (2006) 549-553
4. f/SiC flow channel insert. Fusion Sci. Technol. 50 (2006) 107-119
5. C.P.C. Wong, A. Ying, M. Abdou, A. Abou-Sena, Z. An, J. Blanchard, P. Calderoni, D.P. Carosella, M. Dagher, J. El-Awady, P.J. Fogarty, N. Ghoniem, E. Kim, R. Kurtz, M.P. Labar, S. Majumdar, S. Malang, B. Merrill, N.B. Morley, S. Reyes, M. Sawan, S. Sharafat, S. Smolentsev, G. Sviatoslavsky, D.K. Sze, M. Ulrickson, R.S. Willms, M. Youssef, S.J. Zinkle, Design description document for the U.S. Dual Coolant Pb-17Li (DCLL). Test Blanket Module Report to the ITER Test Blanket Working Group (TBWG), UCLA Report UCLA-FNT-212, General Atomics Report GA-C25027, Rev. 3 (November 2005).
6. Smolentsev S., Morley N.B., and Abdou M. Code development for analysis of MHD pressure drop reduction in a liquid metal blanket using insulation technique based on a fully developed flow model. Fusion Eng. Des. 73 (2005) 83-93
7. Smolentsev S., Morley N.B., Abdou M., Munipalli R., and Moreau R. Current approaches to modeling MHD flows in the dual coolant lead lithium blanket. Magnetohydrodynamics 42 (2006) 225-236
8. Smolentsev S., and Moreau R. Modeling quasi-two-dimensional turbulence in MHD duct flows. Proceedings of the 2006 Summer Program. CTR, Stanford University (2006) 419-430