CFD analysis of WCLL BB PbLi manifold
ENEA CR Brasimone has developed the new design of the Water Cooled Lithium Lead Breeding Blanket(WCLL BB). In the new design Breeding Zone (BZ) water coolant flows in radial-toroidal direction, andPbLi flows in radial-poloidal direction; a gap between the Back Plate (BP) and the BZ constitutes the PbLiinlet manifold. The paper presents the CFD analysis of the WCLL BB PbLi inlet manifold, performed byANSYS CFX-15 code. The objective of the analysis is to investigate the PbLi flow paths in the manifoldregion and to optimize the mass flow rate distribution in the BZ of the module.