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Munipalli, Ramakanth; Huang, P.-Y.; Chandler, C.; Rowell, C.; Ni, M.-J.; Morley, N.; Smolentsev, S.; Abdou, M.
HyPerComp Inc., Westlake Village, CA (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (United States); USDOE - Office of Science (United States)2008
HyPerComp Inc., Westlake Village, CA (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (United States); USDOE - Office of Science (United States)2008
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[en] An advanced simulation environment to model incompressible MHD flows relevant to blanket conditions in fusion reactors has been developed at HyPerComp in research collaboration with TEXCEL. The goals of this phase-II project are two-fold: The first is the incorporation of crucial physical phenomena such as induced magnetic field modeling, and extending the capabilities beyond fluid flow prediction to model heat transfer with natural convection and mass transfer including tritium transport and permeation. The second is the design of a sequence of benchmark tests to establish code competence for several classes of physical phenomena in isolation as well as in select (termed here as 'canonical',) combinations. No previous attempts to develop such a comprehensive MHD modeling capability exist in the literature, and this study represents essentially uncharted territory. During the course of this Phase-II project, a significant breakthrough was achieved in modeling liquid metal flows at high Hartmann numbers. We developed a unique mathematical technique to accurately compute the fluid flow in complex geometries at extremely high Hartmann numbers (10,000 and greater), thus extending the state of the art of liquid metal MHD modeling relevant to fusion reactors at the present time. These developments have been published in noted international journals. A sequence of theoretical and experimental results was used to verify and validate the results obtained. The code was applied to a complete DCLL module simulation study with promising results.
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5 Jun 2008; 110 p; HIMAG-P2-04; FG02-04ER83977; Also available from OSTI as DE00929194; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/929194-TqDtxl/; doi 10.2172/929194
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