A pressurized sub-cooled water cooling option for a full-size gyrotron cavity, based on mini-channels, is developed and analyzed using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool STAR-CCM+. On the basis of this design, which guarantees a pressure drop below the maximum acceptable and the compliance with manufacturing constraints, we study the cooling of a representative mock-up to be experimentally tested in the near future. The solution of the conjugate heat transfer problem in the mock-up geometry is presented, aimed at assessing its thermal performance under increasing target heat load up to 24 MW/m2.
CFD Analysis of Mini-Channel Cooling for a Gyrotron Cavity / Savoldi, Laura; Bertinetti, Andrea; Nallo, Giuseppe Francesco; Zappatore, Andrea; Zanino, Roberto; Cau, Francesca; Cismondi, Fabio; Rozier, Yoann. - CD-ROM. - (2016). ((Intervento presentato al convegno 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) tenutosi a Austin (TX) nel May 31 – June 4, 2015 [10.1109/SOFE.2015.7482420].
CFD Analysis of Mini-Channel Cooling for a Gyrotron Cavity
SAVOLDI, LAURA;BERTINETTI, ANDREA;Nallo, Giuseppe Francesco;ZAPPATORE, ANDREA;ZANINO, Roberto;
2016
Abstract
A pressurized sub-cooled water cooling option for a full-size gyrotron cavity, based on mini-channels, is developed and analyzed using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool STAR-CCM+. On the basis of this design, which guarantees a pressure drop below the maximum acceptable and the compliance with manufacturing constraints, we study the cooling of a representative mock-up to be experimentally tested in the near future. The solution of the conjugate heat transfer problem in the mock-up geometry is presented, aimed at assessing its thermal performance under increasing target heat load up to 24 MW/m2.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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