TY - JOUR
T1 - MHD thermofluid issues of liquid-metal blankets
T2 - Phenomena and advances
AU - Smolentsev, Sergey
AU - Moreau, René
AU - Bühler, Leo
AU - Mistrangelo, Chiara
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - The major accomplishments in the MHD thermofluid area over the last few years are reviewed for liquid-metal blankets. After summarizing basic liquid-metal blanket concepts, such as self-cooled blankets and in particular those to be tested in ITER, namely the dual-coolant and the helium-cooled lead-lithium blanket modules, weconsider the most important MHD phenomena and discuss their impactonheat and mass transfer during blanket operation with special emphasis placed on underlying flow physics. Among them are: MHD pressure drop, three-dimensional flows, MHD instability and turbulence, buoyancy-driven flows, electromagnetic coupling, and interfacial phenomena associated with hydrodynamic slip.
AB - The major accomplishments in the MHD thermofluid area over the last few years are reviewed for liquid-metal blankets. After summarizing basic liquid-metal blanket concepts, such as self-cooled blankets and in particular those to be tested in ITER, namely the dual-coolant and the helium-cooled lead-lithium blanket modules, weconsider the most important MHD phenomena and discuss their impactonheat and mass transfer during blanket operation with special emphasis placed on underlying flow physics. Among them are: MHD pressure drop, three-dimensional flows, MHD instability and turbulence, buoyancy-driven flows, electromagnetic coupling, and interfacial phenomena associated with hydrodynamic slip.
KW - Heat transfer
KW - Liquid-metal blanket
KW - Magnetohydrodynamic flow
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79955467041&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2010.02.038
DO - 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2010.02.038
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955467041
SN - 0920-3796
VL - 85
SP - 1196
EP - 1205
JO - Fusion Engineering and Design
JF - Fusion Engineering and Design
IS - 7-9
ER -