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Ariyoshi, Gen; Saruta, Koichi; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Maeno, Koki*; Li, Y.*; Tsutsui, Kihei*
Proceedings of 20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20) (Internet), p.1407 - 1420, 2023/08
Cavitation damage on a target vessel due to proton beam-induced pressure waves is one of the crucial issues for the pulsed neutron source using a mercury spallation target. As a mitigation technique for the damage, the helium microbubble injection into the mercury has been carried out by using a swirl bubbler in order to utilize compressibility of bubbles. Moreover, double-walled structure, which consists of an outer wall and an inner wall, has been applied as the target head structure. In this study, we aim to develop an abnormality diagnostic technology to detect the inner wall cracking, which is caused by such cavitation damage, from the outside of the target vessel. The mercury flow fields in the case with the cracking are evaluated by computational fluid dynamics analysis based on finite element method. And then, effect of the cracking on the flow field is discussed from the point of view of the flow-induced vibration and the acoustic vibration.
Futakawa, Masatoshi; Tsutsui, Kihei*; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Naoe, Takashi
Key Engineering Materials, 715, p.203 - 209, 2016/11
The developments of the high power proton accelerators become a worldwide interest to provide various applications, where the targets are demanded to efficiently produce secondary beams and to survive intensive MW class proton beam power supplied by the accelerators. Solid metal targets might be melted by very high heat flux that is caused by the proton beam bombardment. In fact, the incident occurred at J-PARC, in which the gold solid target was locally melted to explosively jet molten gold. The jet collided with a structural beryllium flange plate that has a function of vacuum boundary. Some parts of gold were splashed and the other stuck on the flange plate. The relationship between the impact velocity and the morphology of the sticking pattern on the plate was quantitatively evaluated by introducing fractal analysis. It was found that the fractal dimension is correlated with the impact velocity and might be a useful factor to indicate the localized impact force and behavior.
Murata, Atsushi*; Saruta, Koichi; Wakui, Takashi; Li, Y.*; Tsutsui, Kihei*; Futakawa, Masatoshi
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Vibration and sound have been used in diagnosis of mechanical structures in a variety of industries. Under high radiation environments, however, conventional electric sensors such as an accelerometer and a microphone are not suitable especially for in-situ diagnostic systems in nuclear reactors, spallation neutron source systems, etc. since electric signals become degraded by background radiation noise. In this study, the applicability of the optical sound measurement using an laser Doppler vibrometer was investigated through the comparison between fundamental experimental results and 3D FEM analyses (LS-DYNA) for the purpose of developing an in-situ diagnostic system of a mercury target.
Maeno, Koki*; Ariyoshi, Gen; Tsutsui, Kihei*; Saruta, Koichi; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Li, Y.*; Futakawa, Masatoshi
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Cavitation damage is one of the issues for the mercury spallation target, which threatens the structural integrities of the target vessel wall. To reduce such cavitation damages, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) tried to prevent the cavitation bubble growth using the "flow effect". To arrange the environment for the use of the "flow effect", a narrow channel was newly installed by adding an inner wall to the mercury target head. Moreover, the microbubble injection technique to the mercury was also used to reduce the pressure waves which is one of the causes of the cavitation bubble formation. Consequently, the damage could be almost weakened. However, the damage on the inner wall can still be accumulated gradually during the practical target operation. Then, the inner wall might be penetrated by such damage accumulation: wall cracking might happen to the inner wall. Therefore, development of a diagnostic technology for such inner wall cracking should be important. So, the purpose of this study is to clarify the flow field in the target head with wall cracking conditions. Effect of the wall cracking on the flow field in the target head was investigated by CFD analysis. For simplicity, the flow channel near the target head was simulated as two-dimensional models. As the results, the continuous vortices shedding was recognized in the cases of any cracking conditions. And, pulsation flows in the narrow channel were observed in the cases of the cracking width larger than 4 mm.
Maeno, Koki*; Ariyoshi, Gen; Saruta, Koichi; Murata, Atsushi*; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Tsutsui, Kihei*; Li, Y.*; Futakawa, Masatoshi
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Maeno, Koki*; Ariyoshi, Gen; Saruta, Koichi; Murata, Atsushi*; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Li, Y.*; Tsutsui, Kihei*; Futakawa, Masatoshi
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