Volume 6 Issue 3 ( September 2019 )

Pages 190-199

A Study on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Liquid Metal Flow Simulation

Jabir Al Salami, Changhong Hu, Kazuaki Hanada

[ABSTRACT ]

In order to address the problem of heat and particle removal in tokamak-type, magnetic confinement nuclear fusion reactors, a divertor that utilizes liquid metal is suggested to replace solid tungsten divertors due to concerns regarding their structural integrity at high energy fluxes. The operation of such a device gives rise to phenomena spanning multiple disciplines of physics such as fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, thermodynamics and plasma physics. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian, mesh-free numerical method that has been proven effective in a variety of disciplines. In this work, the hydrodynamic aspect of the liquid metal divertor is simulated using SPH, paving the way to implement additional physics in future work.

Keywords: Keywords: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, Liquid Metal.