The adoption of high-speed water flow in mini-channels is a viable option for the cooling system of the resonant cavity in gyrotrons, which are a candidate technology for the external plasma heating in nuclear fusion reactors. The evaluation of the performance of such mini-channel cooling system is a combined fluid dynamics and heat transfer phenomenon which seeks more attention to a highly accurate compu-tational analysis. In this study, a computational-based comparative platform is proposed to evaluate the performance and fidelity of the applied turbulence models which are utilized to study the mini-channel cavity cooling systems in gyrotrons. A full-size mock-up of the gyrotron resonator equipped with mini-channels has been realized and tested in 2019 by THALES to check its total pressure drop applying a wide range of water flow rates, including that available for the gyrotron operation. In parallel, a numerical model of the mock-up has been developed using the commercial software STAR-CCM + , and simulations have been performed using different RANS turbulence closures, and namely: SST k -omega, realizable k-epsilon and Lag EB k-epsilon. The detailed comparison of the computed hydraulic characteristics (i.e., a range of pres-sure drop measurements at different flow rates) to the set of measured values has been addressed using a multivariate metric to assess the performance of different turbulence models in pure hydraulic sim-ulations. This comparative platform reveals a significant clarified difference in fidelity among the RANS models. Based on the performed comparative studies against the entire set of available experimental data, the Lag EB k-epsilon closure provides the best performance among the other turbulence models and can be applied for the future studies of the mini-channel cavity cooling systems of the gyrotron resonators. (C) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Assessment of different {RANS} turbulence models in mini-channels for the cooling of {MW}-class gyrotron resonators / Difonzo, R.; Gajetti, E.; Savoldi, L.; Fathi, N.. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER. - ISSN 0017-9310. - ELETTRONICO. - 193:(2022), p. 122922. [10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2022.122922]

Assessment of different {RANS} turbulence models in mini-channels for the cooling of {MW}-class gyrotron resonators

R. Difonzo;E. Gajetti;L. Savoldi;
2022

Abstract

The adoption of high-speed water flow in mini-channels is a viable option for the cooling system of the resonant cavity in gyrotrons, which are a candidate technology for the external plasma heating in nuclear fusion reactors. The evaluation of the performance of such mini-channel cooling system is a combined fluid dynamics and heat transfer phenomenon which seeks more attention to a highly accurate compu-tational analysis. In this study, a computational-based comparative platform is proposed to evaluate the performance and fidelity of the applied turbulence models which are utilized to study the mini-channel cavity cooling systems in gyrotrons. A full-size mock-up of the gyrotron resonator equipped with mini-channels has been realized and tested in 2019 by THALES to check its total pressure drop applying a wide range of water flow rates, including that available for the gyrotron operation. In parallel, a numerical model of the mock-up has been developed using the commercial software STAR-CCM + , and simulations have been performed using different RANS turbulence closures, and namely: SST k -omega, realizable k-epsilon and Lag EB k-epsilon. The detailed comparison of the computed hydraulic characteristics (i.e., a range of pres-sure drop measurements at different flow rates) to the set of measured values has been addressed using a multivariate metric to assess the performance of different turbulence models in pure hydraulic sim-ulations. This comparative platform reveals a significant clarified difference in fidelity among the RANS models. Based on the performed comparative studies against the entire set of available experimental data, the Lag EB k-epsilon closure provides the best performance among the other turbulence models and can be applied for the future studies of the mini-channel cavity cooling systems of the gyrotron resonators. (C) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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