Project of rotating carbon high-power neutron target. Simulation of the target thermal and mechanical operation conditions

Abstract

The methods and results of the calculation of the 100kW neutron target thermal and mechanical conditions are presented. Calculation is made for optimization of the target design and consists of the thermal and mechanical stress determination.

Thermal analysis and neutron production characteristics of a low power copper beam dump-cum-target for LEHIPA

“…Therefore, the physics design of the beam dump (figure 1) was done considering mainly the heat removal capacity of the cooling water with practical limits. The beam dump's shape and size was optimized [9] to keep power density per unit area below 1.6 MW/m 2 at the solid-fluid interface due to the allowed Critical Heat Flux to avoid burnout [10] and to maximize the total surface area. The beam directly falls upon the beam dump…”