Title :
Quantifying the Advantages of Counter Flow Helium First Wall Cooling A Thermal-Hydraulic Comparison of ITER TBM First Wall Cooling Designs
Author :
Sviatoslavsky, G. ; Dagher, M. ; Calderoni, Pattrick ; Wong, C.P.C.
Author_Institution :
Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI
Abstract :
Three dimensional computational fluid dynamic (CFD) calculations using the commercial software FLUENT, were performed to evaluate the thermal hydraulic performance of a counter flowing helium first wall (FW) cooling system compared to a more simple unidirectional flowing FW cooling system
Keywords :
Tokamak devices; computational fluid dynamics; fusion reactor blankets; fusion reactor design; ITER TBM first wall cooling design; commercial software FLUENT; counter flow helium first wall cooling; test blanket module; thermal hydraulic performance; three dimensional computational fluid dynamics; unidirectional flowing FW cooling system; Assembly; Computational fluid dynamics; Coolants; Cooling; Counting circuits; Helium; Performance evaluation; Software performance; Steel; Temperature; CFD; ITER; first wall; helium cooling; test blanket module; thermal-hydraulic analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Fusion Engineering 2005, Twenty-First IEEE/NPS Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Knoxville, TN
Print_ISBN :
0-4244-0150-X
Electronic_ISBN :
0-4244-0150-X
DOI :
10.1109/FUSION.2005.252901
