A comparison of two-phase computational fluid dynamics codes applied to the ITER first wall hypervapotron

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1704-1708

  Youchison, Dennis L ^a   Ulrickson, Michael A ^a   Bullock, James H ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Boiling; computational fluid dynamics; first wall; hypervapotron; two phase

Indexed keywords

BACK CHANNELS; BASELINE DESIGN; BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; COMMERCIAL CODES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER; COOLING CONDITIONS; DESIGN-BY-ANALYSIS; EULERIAN; FIRST WALL; FIRST WALL PANELS; HEAT LOADS; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATION; HIGHER LOADS; HYPERVAPOTRONS; RADIAL TRANSPORT; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MATERIAL; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS; TOTAL LENGTH; USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS; VAPOR BUBBLE; WALL HEAT FLUX; WIDE-SLOT;

DENTISTRY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NUCLEATE BOILING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954540083     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2010.2049369     Document Type: Article

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