CFX Analysis for LAGUNA

The purpose of the LAGUNA project is to unlock the secret of neutrinos which is one of the key elements of the universe. In order to achieve that, two underground facilities is required to build. One of these facilities will be in CERN and the other will be in Finland. The mission of the CERN is to generate neutrinos in this underground facility. So that, detectors in Finland will have the neutrinos to make the measurements. To generate the neutrinos protons at high speed are going to be needed. These protons will make collisions with a graphite rod (called target) in this facility. When the protons collide with the target, lots of subatomic particles will born. Powerful magnets will give direction to these particle towards to a decay tunnel where the particles turn into neutrinos and start their journey to detectors. Some particles, however, won’t be affected from the magnet. They will interact with the walls of decay tunnel and target chamber. This will cause the heat generation inside the walls. My duty in this project is to help to my supervisor to determine and analyze the required mechanism to remove heat from this structure by using Ansys CFX module (a finite element method interface for computational fluid dynamics).