Modeling of liquid walls in APEX study

Issue title: Proceedings of the tenth International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics ISEM-Tokyo

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Smolentsev, S.^{a; *} | Abdou, M.^a | Kunugi, T.^b | Morley, N.^a | Satake, S.^c | Ying, A.^a

Affiliations: [a] UCLA, 420 Westwood Plaza, 43-133 Engineering IV, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597, USA | [b] Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan | [c] Toyama University, Toyama, Toyama, 930-0887, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: S. Smolentsev, Tel.: +1 310 794 5366; Fax: +1 310 825 2599; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: Liquid wall concept has a significant place in the Advanced Power Extraction (APEX) study as a part of the US program on Nuclear Fusion. In the present paper, different approaches currently developed for modeling liquid wall magnetohydrodynamics and heat transfer in APEX have been presented. Turbulent flows of low-conductivity liquids, such as molten salts (Flibe), are analyzed using a two-equation turbulence model and Direct Numerical Simulation. The analysis of liquid metal flows under a strong reactor magnetic field is based on the magnetohydrodynamic equations for laminar flows.

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-2002-343

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 13, no. 1-4, pp. 373-379, 2002