Abstract
Thermo-hydraulic design of test blanket module (TBM) is challenging in that each component of TBM should be properly controlled within narrow temperature margins in the extreme conditions such as high heat flux from plasma and volumetric heat generation due to neutron irradiation. This paper presents thermo-hydraulic analysis results on the Korean helium cooled solid breeder (HCSB) TBM with the updated design. In the previous study, computation was performed on the TBM model with assumption that the coolant is uniformly distributed at back manifolds, without including the back manifolds in the computational model. In the present study, the updated configuration of the back manifolds is introduced. Flow distribution in each manifold is investigated as well as flow characteristics. Then, thermo-hydraulic analysis on the TBM model is carried out with flow distributions calculated from the flow analysis results on the back manifolds. It is found that the current manifolds are reasonably designed so that the TBM components are effectively cooled against associated thermal loads.
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