Title :
Progress in the Integrated Simulation of Thermal-Hydraulic Operation of the ITER Magnet System
Author :
Bagnasco, M. ; Bessette, D. ; Bottura, L. ; Marinucci, C. ; Rosso, C.
Author_Institution :
EPFL-CRPP Fusion Technol., Villigen, Switzerland
fDate :
6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new integrated computer code is being developed for the simulations of the overall behavior of the ITER magnet cryo-system. The existing THEA, FLOWER and POWER codes, assembled as modules of a computational environment (SuperMagnet) have been upgraded to perform global simulations of the cooling circuit for the ITER magnet system. The thermal coupling resulting from the generic geometric configurations has been implemented to realize quasi-three-dimensional simulations of the winding pack. In this paper we present details on the model.
Keywords :
Tokamak devices; nuclear engineering computing; superconducting magnets; FLOWER code; ITER magnet system; POWER code; SuperMagnet; THEA code; cooling circuit; integrated simulation; new integrated computer code; thermal coupling; thermal-hydraulic operation; Heat transfer; superconducting magnets; thermal-hydraulics;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASC.2010.2043836