
VENECIA: Venecia software package for thermal hydraulic analysis of forced flow cooled superconducting equipment and their primary cryogenic subsystems
Applications
The code is applicable for thermohydraulic studies for a wide range of devices including
- thermonuclear facilities (fusion)
- accelerators and transport systems
- magnet systems for NMR and MRI
- superconducting cables and joints
- superconducting motors, generators and SMES
- experimental and diagnostic devices for scientific research
- components of magnet primary cryogenic circuits (rotary machine for forced flow cooling, cold vapor compressors, force flow heat exchangers, bath with boiling coolant, long coolant transfer lines and control/relief valves)
Validation
VENECIA results have been compared with existing Vincenta simulations and huge experimental database collected during CSMC tests under pulsed high power heat loads.
Excellent match between numerical and physical results in terms of temperature-pressure-flow at more than 50 principal points of the CSMC cooling circuit has proved that VENECIA is suitable for thermohydraulic analysis of complex magnet systems.