Optimization of mercury flow with microbubbles in the target-vessel design by means of machine learning

Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Haga, Katsuhiro; Tsuzuki, Takayuki*; Murai, Tetsuro*

JAEA-Technology 2022-023, 128 Pages, 2022/11

JAEA-Technology-2022-023.pdf:9.0MB

In a mercury target of the J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex), pulsed proton beams repeatedly bombard the flowing mercury which is confined in a stainless-steel vessel (target vessel). Cavitation damage caused by the propagation of the pressure waves is a factor of the life of the target vessel. As a measure to reduce damages, we developed a bubbler to inject the gas microbubbles into the flowing mercury, which can reduce the pressure waves. To operate the mercury target vessel stably with the 1 MW high-intensity proton beams, further reduction of the damage is required. The bubbler setting position should be closer to the beam window to increase the bubble population, which could enhance the reduction effect on the pressure waves and damage. However, the space at the beam window of the target vessel is restricted. The bubbler design and setting position as well as the vane design for the mercury flowing pattern are optimized by means of a machine learning technique to get more suitable bubble distribution, increasing in bubble population and optimizing bubble size nearby the beam window of the target vessel. The results of CFD analyses performed with 1000 cases were used for machine learning. Since the flow rate of mercury affects the temperature of the target vessel, this was used for the constraint condition. As a result, we found a design of mercury target vessel that can increase the bubble population by ca. 20% higher than the current design.

Experimental investigation of the suppressed superconducting gap and double-resonance mode in BaKFeAs

Ideta, Shinichiro*; Murai, Naoki; Nakajima, Masamichi*; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Tanaka, Kiyohisa*

Physical Review B, 100(23), p.235135_1 - 235135_7, 2019/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.235135

Elastic and dynamical structural properties of La and Mn-doped SrTiO studied by neutron scattering and their relation with thermal conductivities

Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Murai, Naoki; Shamoto, Shinichi; Honda, Takashi*; Ikeda, Kazutaka*; Otomo, Toshiya*; Hata, Hiroto*; Eto, Takahiro*; Noda, Masaaki*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 8(1), p.9651_1 - 9651_8, 2018/06

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27984-z

Structure of air-water two-phase flow in helically coiled tubes

Murai, Yuichi*; Yoshikawa, Shinji; Toda, Shinichi*; Ishikawa, Masaaki*; Yamamoto, Fujio*

Nuclear Engineering and Design, 236(1), p.94 - 106, 2006/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.04.011

Air-water two-phase flow in helicallly coiled tube of 20mm in the internal diameter is investigated ezperimentally to elucidate the effect of centrifugal acceleration on the flow regime map and the local instantaneous flow structure. Three kinds of test tubes including a straight tube are used to compare the flow structure under turbulent flow condition. The superficial velocity up to 6 m/s is tested so that centrifugal Froude number covers a range from 0 to 3. The inter facial structure is visualized from two directions by a high-speed video system with a synchronized measurement of local pressure fluctuation. The results reveral that the flow transition line alters due to centrifugal force acting on liquid phase in the tube. Especially the bubbly fow regime is narrwed significantly. The pressure fluctuation amplitude gets large relatively to the average presure loww as void fraction increases. The Frequency spectra of the pressure fluctuation have plural peaks in the case of strong curvature, implying that the periodicity of slugging two-phase flow is collapsed by internal secondary flow actibated inside liquid phase. Moreover, the substantial velocity of gas phase is slower than the total superficial velocity in case of large Froude number because of biased distribution to the inner surface allowing liquid flow passing outside as like a radial stratified flow.

Study of aqueous process

; ; Kaneko, Masaaki*; *; *

JNC TJ6400 2001-012, 51 Pages, 2002/03

JNC-TJ6400-2001-012.pdf:1.68MB

no abstracts in English

Radiation-grafting of acrylic acid onto ultrahigh molecular,high-strength polyethylene fibers

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Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 47, p.1427 - 1438, 1993/00

https://doi.org/10.1002/app.1993.070470814

no abstracts in English

Magneto-elastic coupling in detwinned Sr(FeCo)As by inelastic X-ray scattering

Murai, Naoki*; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Nakajima, Masamichi*; Kobayashi, Tatsuya*; Uchiyama, Hiroshi*; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Ishikawa, Daisuke*; Nakamura, Hiroki; Machida, Masahiko; Miyasaka, Shigeki*; et al.

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Two distinct resonance-like excitations in underdoped Ba_K_Fe_As_ (x = 0.25) as seen via inelastic neutron scattering

Murai, Naoki; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Tanaka, Kiyohisa*; Nakajima, Masamichi*; Ideta, Shinichiro*; Suzuki, Katsuhiro*

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We report an inelastic neutron scattering (INS) study of underdoped Ba_K_Fe_As_ that shows the presence of double-resonance at the same commensurate wave vector in the superconducting (SC) state. By comparing our INS data with the SC gap structure of the same crystal, as measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we show that the observed double-resonance feature originates neither from SC gap anisotropy nor from multiple SC gaps on different Fermi-surface sheets. This suggests that the double-resonance feature in iron-pnictides cannot be interpreted within a spin-exciton scenario.

Large downward renormalization of spin excitation energies in BaKFeAs due to electron correlation effects

Murai, Naoki; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Suzuki, Katsuhiro*; Ideta, Shinichiro*; Nakajima, Masamichi*; Ikeda, Hiroaki*; Tanaka, Kiyohisa*

no journal, , 

Using inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we investigate the spin dynamics of iron-based superconductor BaKFeAs. The INS data show a spin-wave-like dispersive feature, with a zone boundary energy of 200 meV. A random phase approximation (RPA) treatment of the dynamical spin susceptibility, incorporating the band renormalization factor of 3 derived from the ARPES measurements on the same crystals, provides a reasonable description of the observed spin excitations. This analysis shows that the experimental spin excitation peak lies at a much lower energy than the bare value, reflecting a strong renormalization of the quasiparticle band dispersion near the Fermi level due to electron correlation effect. The present results point to a unified framework that connects the magnetic response to the underlying electronic structure of the materials.

Large downward renormalization of spin excitation energies in BaKFeAs due to electron correlation effects

Murai, Naoki; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Suzuki, Katsuhiro*; Nakajima, Masamichi*; Ikeda, Hiroaki*; Ideta, Shinichiro*; Tanaka, Kiyohisa*

no journal, , 

We report inelastic neutron scattering (INS) study of hole-doped iron-based superconductor BaKFeAs (x = 0.25). The INS data show a spin-wave-like dispersive feature, with a zone boundary energy of 200 meV. A random phase approximation (RPA) treatment of the dynamical spin susceptibility, incorporating the band renormalization factor of 3 derived from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements on the same sample, provides a reasonable description of the observed spin excitations. This analysis shows that the Fe-3d bandwidth narrowing due to electron correlation is directly reflected in the spin excitation energy scale. We will discuss the current state of our analysis relating the magnetic response to the underlying electronic structure of the materials.