Design of the European Spallation Source Liquid-Metal Target Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Nuclear Technology
- Vol. 127 (2) , 218-232
- https://doi.org/10.13182/nt99-a2997
Abstract
The only two possibilities for examining the thermal-hydraulic behavior of a liquid-metal spallation source target are either to build a full-size target and install it in a proton beam, suitably supplied with coolant under design conditions and instrumented, or to simulate such a target using a state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics computer code. This latter approach has been pursued in the design of the proposed European Spallation Source for a target filled with liquid mercury coolant under forced circulation. Results indicate that a carefully designed target can remove the 2.8 MW of heat that neutronics calculations predict will be deposited within the coolant and the target body, without the overheating of either.Keywords
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