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The need is increasing for development of high power targets and beam dump areas for the production of intense beams of secondary particles (IFMIF, SNS, RIA, LHC). The severe constraints arising from a MW beam power deposited on targets and absorbers, call for non-trivial procedures to dilute the beam. This study describes the development of targets and absorbers and the advantages of using flowing liquid metal in concave channels first proposed by IFMIF to raise the liquid metal boiling point by increasing the pressure in liquid supported by a centrifugal force. Such flow with a back-wall is subject to the Taylor-Couette instability. The instability can play a positive role of increasing the heat transfer from the hottest region in the target/absorber to the back-wall cooled by water. At the laminar stage of the instability with a certain wave number of vortexes, the heat transfer from a chain of vortexes to the wall increases heat removal by enhancing the convective transport inside the liquid bulk and from the bulk to the wall. Results of theoretical analysis and numerical modeling of both targets and dump areas for the IFMIF, ILC, and RIA facilities are presented.
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