Antonino Caratozzolo
Thermo-hydraulic analysis and thermal fatigue life estimation of TH1509U-A gyrotron’s electron beam collector.
Rel. Laura Savoldi. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Energetica E Nucleare, 2024
Abstract
Gyrotron devices use the phenomenon of electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) for the heating of plasma in fusion reactors. A substantial amount of power, carried by the electron beam, is not actively employed and must be exhausted by the gyrotron’s beam collector. In this thesis, the commercial softwares STAR-CCM+ and Ansys are used to carry out a thermo-hydraulic and thermo-mechanical analysis on the collector of the TH1509U-A gyrotron, manufactured by THALES for the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility in Frascati. The component has a concentric cylindrical shells structure, and it is cooled by subcooled pressurized water flowing into the annular section between the shells.
The innermost shell receives the spent electron beam and is equipped with a series of deep cavities (fins with aspect ratio=2.85) with azimuthal symmetry
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