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TY - CONF AU - Mereu, P. AU - Grespan, F. AU - Mezzano, M. AU - Mingioni, C. AU - Nenni, M. AU - Palmieri, A. AU - Pisent, A. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Pranke, Juliana ED - Seidel, Mike ED - Lindroos, Mats TI - Thermo Mechanical Study of the ESS DTL J2 - Proc. of IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14â19 May, 2017 C1 - Copenhagen, Denmark T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 8 LA - english AB - The Drift Tube Linac (DTL) of the European Spallation Source (ESS) is designed to operate at 352.2 MHz with a duty cycle of 4 % (3 ms pulse length, 14 Hz repetition period) and will accelerate a proton beam of 62.5 mA pulse peak current from 3.62 to 90 MeV. In this paper the main issues regarding the thermo-mechanical 3D details of the DTL are addressed and a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model is proposed and validated against the experimental data. The results of these simulations are used to properly design the DTL cooling system. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 4537 EP - 4539 KW - DTL KW - simulation KW - quadrupole KW - feedback KW - linac DA - 2017/05 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-182-3 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPVA046 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2017/papers/thpva046.pdf ER -