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Numerical study on gas bubble formation in stagnant and flowing mercury

Bucheeri, A.; Kogawa, Hiroyuki  ; Naoe, Takashi   ; Futakawa, Masatoshi  ; Maekawa, Katsuhiro*

A high-power liquid mercury target system for spallation neutron source is being developed in Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Cavitation will be induced by pressure waves which are caused by high intense proton beam injection into mercury. Injection of microbubbles in mercury with 50 to 200$$mu$$m in diameter may be effective to mitigate the cavitation. The effectiveness is dependent on bubble size and population. To investigate the behavior of bubble formation in mercury from a nozzle and develop microbubbles injection technique, numerical simulation on bubble injection in stagnant and flowing mercury were carried out using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code. The simulation in stagnant showed that bubble grew around the outer wall of the nozzle. Bubble computed under flowing condition was smaller than that in stagnant due to the drag and shearing fources induced by mercury flow.

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