Studies on cooling by two-dimensional confined jet flow of high heat heat flux surface in fusion reactor Original Research Article

Divertor surface of a magnetic confinement fusion reactor is exposed to strong radiative heating. According to standard design of the ITER, maximum heat flux on the divertor surface becomes locally near 30 MW m−2. To cool such high heat flux surface by water flow, it is necessary to establish a cooling method which enhanced the critical heat flux (CHF). We proposed a cooling by a planar impinging jet with free surface in the previous report. In the jet cooling on flat surface, high CHF was obtained in the limited region where the jet flow hits directly. As apart from the region, the CHF decreases abruptly with the distance from the center. To overcome this difficulty, it was proposed that the planar jet is applied to cool concave surface where the centrifugal force is efficiently used to enhance the CHF. In this study, the CHFs were investigated in the confined jet flow which was guarded by a wall on the other side of the heated wall, because the guard wall works to protect splash of water from liquid film by violent boiling and expects further enhancement of the CHF. In this study, the CHFs were investigated in the confined flow of two-dimensional jet on flat and concave surfaces in the various flow conditions and got a correlation for the CHF. Applicability of this cooling for divertor surface was assessed by using the experimental results.