Technical Meeting on State-of-the-art Thermal Hydraulics of Fast Reactors

Scientific Programme

Track I: Fundamental thermal hydraulics

• Heat transfer and friction factor correlations
• Turbulent heat and mass transfer
• Multiphase flow
• Low Re number flow
• Natural and mixed convection
• Fluids with internal heat generation
• Gas dynamics and compressible flow

Track II: Test facilities and experimental thermal hydraulics

• Isothermal / Hydraulic experiments
• Non-isothermal / Thermal-hydraulic experiments
• In-pile experiments
• Measurement techniques and instrumentation

Track III: Computational modelling & simulation

• Sub-channel thermal hydraulics
• Core thermal hydraulics
• Pool and primary circuit thermal hydraulics
• System thermal hydraulics
• High Fidelity Modelling
• Computational codes

Track IV: Thermal hydraulics of transients and accidents

• Operational transients
• Design basis accidents
• Severe accidents (coolant boiling, fuel-coolant interaction, corium thermal hydraulics, source term, etc.)
• Decay heat removal
• Containment thermal hydraulics

Track V: Multiscale and multiphysics modeling

• Multi-scale modeling and coupling
• Multi-physics modelling and coupling (fluid-structure interaction, magneto hydrodynamics, neutronics – thermal hydraulics, fuel assembly bowing and buckling, core mechanics etc.)

Track VI: Verification, validation and uncertainty analysis

• Verification and validation
• Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
• Lessons learned from international benchmarks