MHD and heat transfer in downflow and upflow of a liquid metal in the vertical pipe applied to tokamak reactor blanket module

Abstract

The studies of hydrodynamics and heat transfer were carried out with the upflow and downflow of liquid metal in a vertical pipe with one-sided heating affected by a transverse magnetic field. The task simulates a liquid metal flow in a cooling system channel of a TOKAMAK type fusion reactor blanket. The experimental data on heat transfer provided by detailed probe measurements were obtained using mercury MHD facility.