Analysis and optimization of a liquid Pb-Bi target for ISOL facilities

Donald Houngbo; Jan Vierendeels; Lucia Popescu

Analysis and optimization of a liquid Pb-Bi target for ISOL facilities

Donald Houngbo, Jan Vierendeels, Lucia Popescu

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Abstract

The circulating liquid Lead Bismuth Eutectic (LBE) target is of interest for high-power facilities like ISOL@MYRRHA and EURISOL. When developing this target, one of the important challenges is to design and optimize the shape of the irradiation container so that, once irradiated, the LBE is immediately evacuated into a uniform shower of very small droplets. This is necessary in order to enhance the diffusion of isotopes formed during irradiation, especially for isotopes with short half-lives. This presentation deals with the optimization of the flow of a heavy liquid metal in the compact and complex geometry of the irradiation volume of such a target.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the jointly organized 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics - WCCM XI, 5th. European Conference on Computational Mechanics - ECCM V, 6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics - ECFD VI
Place of Publication	Barcelona, Spain
Pages	6212-6222
Volume	6
State	Published - Jul 2014
Event	WCCM-ECCM-ECFD 2014 Congress - The International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) and the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), Barcelona Duration: 20 Jul 2014 → 25 Jul 2014

Conference

Conference	WCCM-ECCM-ECFD 2014 Congress
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	2014-07-20 → 2014-07-25

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Houngbo, D., Vierendeels, J., & Popescu, L. (2014). Analysis and optimization of a liquid Pb-Bi target for ISOL facilities. In Proceedings of the jointly organized 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics - WCCM XI, 5th. European Conference on Computational Mechanics - ECCM V, 6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics - ECFD VI (Vol. 6, pp. 6212-6222).

Houngbo, Donald ; Vierendeels, Jan ; Popescu, Lucia. / Analysis and optimization of a liquid Pb-Bi target for ISOL facilities. Proceedings of the jointly organized 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics - WCCM XI, 5th. European Conference on Computational Mechanics - ECCM V, 6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics - ECFD VI. Vol. 6 Barcelona, Spain, 2014. pp. 6212-6222

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Houngbo, D, Vierendeels, J & Popescu, L 2014, Analysis and optimization of a liquid Pb-Bi target for ISOL facilities. in Proceedings of the jointly organized 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics - WCCM XI, 5th. European Conference on Computational Mechanics - ECCM V, 6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics - ECFD VI. vol. 6, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 6212-6222, WCCM-ECCM-ECFD 2014 Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2014-07-20.

Analysis and optimization of a liquid Pb-Bi target for ISOL facilities. / Houngbo, Donald; Vierendeels, Jan; Popescu, Lucia.
Proceedings of the jointly organized 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics - WCCM XI, 5th. European Conference on Computational Mechanics - ECCM V, 6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics - ECFD VI. Vol. 6 Barcelona, Spain, 2014. p. 6212-6222.

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Houngbo D, Vierendeels J, Popescu L. Analysis and optimization of a liquid Pb-Bi target for ISOL facilities. In Proceedings of the jointly organized 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics - WCCM XI, 5th. European Conference on Computational Mechanics - ECCM V, 6th. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics - ECFD VI. Vol. 6. Barcelona, Spain. 2014. p. 6212-6222