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Numerical simulation of hydro- and magnetohydrodynamic processes in the Muon Collider target

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Abstract

We have developed numerical methods and performed numerical simulations of the proposed Muon Collider target. The target will be designed as a pulsed jet of mercury interacting with strong proton beams in a 20 Tesla magnetic field. A numerical approach based on the method of front tracking for numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic flows in discontinuous media was implemented in FronTier, a hydrodynamics code with free interface support. The FronTier-MHD code was used to study the evolution of the mercury jet in the target magnet system. To model accurately the interaction of the mercury target with proton pulses, a realistic equation of state for mercury was created in a wide temperature - pressure domain. The mercury target - proton pulse interaction was simulated during 120 microseconds. Simulations predict that the mercury target will be broken into a set of droplets with velocities in the range 20 - 60 m/sec.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science, ICCS 2002 - International Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages391-400
Number of pages10
EditionPART 3
ISBN (Print)3540435948, 9783540435945
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
EventInternational Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2002 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: Apr 21 2002Apr 24 2002

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 3
Volume2331 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2002
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period04/21/0204/24/02

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