低温工学
Online ISSN : 1880-0408
Print ISSN : 0389-2441
ISSN-L : 0389-2441
44 巻, 7 号
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  • 尾花 哲浩, 濱口 真司, 柳 長門, 三戸 利行, 森内 貞智, 関口 温朗, 大場 恒揮, 今川 信作
    2009 年 44 巻 7 号 p. 304-313
    発行日: 2009年
    公開日: 2009/09/14
    ジャーナル フリー
    The cooling system for the helical coils of the Large Helical Device (LHD) was upgraded in 2006 in order to improve the stability of the LHD helical coils. The cooling system that has 20 parallel paths to provide subcooled He to the helical coils fulfills the following design requirements: inlet temperature of 3.2 K and mass flow rate for the coils of 50 g/s. Although the system meets these requirements, the characteristics of the system are not understood in practice. In this study, the influences of the mass flow rate and cooling temperature on the cooling system were investigated to determine what is required for stable system operation. The results show that the temperatures at each position changed linearly with the temperature of the supplied subcooled He; and that an unstable state in the parallel paths occurred when the mass flow rate decreased. A mass flow rate of at least 30 g/s is needed to prevent an unstable state in the cooling system when subcooled He of 3.2 K is supplied to the helical coils. In addition, the temperature of the helical coil winding was evaluated using a numerical calculation, in which the numerical model simplifying the helical coil configuration was utilized. This was done because the helical coil winding is not equipped with thermometers in terms of electrical insulation. Using the numerical model, the temperatures at the coil outlet and coil case can be predicted not only under a steady heat load, but also under coil excitation. The coil winding temperature is close to the coil outlet temperature undercoil excitation because of AC loss.
  • 石本 淳, 大平 勝秀, 岡林 一木, 千歳 敬子
    2009 年 44 巻 7 号 p. 314-322
    発行日: 2009年
    公開日: 2009/09/14
    ジャーナル フリー
    The 3-D structure of the liquid atomization behavior of an LH2 jet flow through a pinhole nozzle is numerically investigated and visualized by a new type of integrated simulation technique. The present Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis focuses on the heat transfer effect on the consecutive breakup of a cryogenic liquid column, the formation of a liquid film, and the generation of droplets in the outlet section of the pinhole nozzle. Utilizing the governing equations for a high-speed turbulent cryogenic jet flow through a pinhole nozzle based on the thermal nonequilibrium LES-VOF model in conjunction with the CSF model, an integrated parallel computation is performed to clarify the detailed atomization process of a high-speed LH2 jet flow through a pinhole nozzle and to acquire data, which is difficult to confirm by experiment, such as atomization length, liquid core shape, droplet-size distribution, spray angle, droplet velocity profiles, and thermal field surrounding the atomizing jet flow. According to the present computation, the cryogenic atomization rate and the LH2 droplets-gas two-phase flow characteristics are found to be controlled by the turbulence perturbation upstream of the pinhole nozzle, hydrodynamic instabilities at the gasliquid interface and shear stress between the liquid core and the periphery of the LH2 jet. Furthermore, calculation of the effect of cryogenic atomization on the jet thermal field shows that such atomization extensively enhances the thermal diffusion surrounding the LH2 jet flow. (Translation of the article originally published in Cryogenics 48 (2008) 238–247)
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