A Formal Verification and Validation of a Low Magnetic Reynolds Number MHD Code for Fusion Applications

As the nuclear fusion research advances, researchers and engineers focus more on design of required systems that complement reaction in plasma a Tokamak. Some proposals for breeding blankets as well plasma-facing components’ protection are based liquid metal flows under Tokamak intense magnetic fields. This creates situation where induced field can be neglected low Reynolds number (Re) electric potential formulation used to close magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system equations. In last few years, many different laboratories have developed their own MHD codes study flow. A formal verification validation such is necessary enhance reliability numerical results make sure decisions safe grounds. The community has made effort proposing standardized benchmark cases through which any code should demonstrate its reliability. work contains activities some years ago Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) currently candidate contribute done at Princeton Plasma Phyisics Laboratory (PPPL). implemented over OpenFOAM makes it easily modifiable. Among these cases, there high Hartmann (Ha), 3-D flows, magneto-convective interaction cases.