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We have developed numerical methods and performed numerical simulations of the proposed Muon Collider target. The target will be designed as a pulsed jet of mercury interacting with strong proton beams in a 20 Tesla magnetic field. A numerical approach based on the method of front tracking for numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic flows in discontinuous media was implemented in Fron Tier, a hydrodynamics code with free interface support. The Fron Tier-MHD code was used to study the evolution of the mercury jet in the target magnet system. To model accurately the interaction of the mercury target with proton pulses, a realistic equation of state for mercury was created in a wide temperature - pressure domain. The mercury target - proton pulse interaction was simulated during 120 microseconds. Simulations predict that the mercury target will be broken into a set of droplets with velocities in the range 20 - 60 m/sec.
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Samulyak, R. (2002). Numerical Simulation of Hydro- and Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in the Muon Collider Target. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Hoekstra, A.G., Tan, C.J.K., Dongarra, J.J. (eds) Computational Science — ICCS 2002. ICCS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2331. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47789-6_41
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