Exploratory studies of flowing liquid metal divertor options for fusion-relevant magnetic fields in the MTOR facility

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 35-62

  Ying, A Y ^a   Abdou, M A ^a   Morley, N ^a   Sketchley, T ^a   Woolley, R ^b   Burris, J ^a   Kaita, R ^b   Fogarty, P ^c   Huang, H ^d   Lao, X ^a   Narula, M ^a   Smolentsev, S ^a   Ulrickson, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Divertor; Free surface; Fusion; Liquid metal; Magnetohydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; JETS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA DEVICES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE;

DIVERTER; FLOW RATES; FREE SURFACE; WAVE STRUCTURES;

LIQUID METALS;

EID: 7444222442     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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