Published December 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Thermal hydraulic analysis of EAST W-divertor outer target

  • 1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei (China)

Description

In order to improve the anti-thermal load and heat dissipation performance of the divertor of EAST, its first wall material is changed to tungsten from graphite. In the structure, outer target adopts the ITER-like monoblock, bracing and cooling structure adopts incorporate cassette. After establishing the cooling structure of EAST tungsten divertor, the flows-solid coupling heat conduction model of water-pipes is used to analyze the heat dissipation situation of outside target in the form of turbulent flow. While the cooling system comes to failure, a series of heat flux value 3 MW·m-2, 5 MW·m-2, 8 MW·m-2, 10 MW·m-2 are applied in the hazardous area to analyze transient conditions and real temperature distribution. The results shows that if the water flows at 4 m·s-1, the cooling pipes can withstand the heat flux with peak power in 10 MW·m-2. It can well meet the needs in heat dissipation of EAST experiment. (authors)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Fusion and Plasma Physics
Journal Volume
35
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 356-360
ISSN
0254-6086

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Notes
5 figs., 1 tab., 8 refs.