Urban warming and cities' microclimates: Investigation methods and mitigation strategies—A review

S Tsoka, K Tsikaloudaki, T Theodosiou, D Bikas - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increased rates of urbanization and industrialization of the 20th and 21st centuries have
dramatically changed the land use and cover of modern cities, contributing to the …

A review of the CFD modeling progress triggered by ISP-47 on containment thermal hydraulics

S Kelm, H Müller, HJ Allelein - Nuclear science and engineering, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/Nuclear
Energy Agency International Standard Problem 47 (ISP-47) was aimed at assessing the …

The Tailored CFD Package 'containmentFOAM' for Analysis of Containment Atmosphere Mixing, H2/CO Mitigation and Aerosol Transport

S Kelm, M Kampili, X Liu, A George, D Schumacher… - Fluids, 2021 - mdpi.com
The severe reactor accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (2011) has
confirmed the need to understand the flow and transport processes of steam and …

Feasibility of full-core pin resolved CFD simulations of small modular reactor with momentum sources

J Fang, DR Shaver, A Tomboulides, M Min… - … Engineering and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Complex flow structure interactions and heat transfer processes take place in nuclear
reactor cores. Given the extreme pressure/temperature and radioactive conditions inside the …

Numerical study on an interface compression method for the volume of fluid approach

Y Okagaki, T Yonomoto, M Ishigaki, Y Hirose - fluids, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many thermohydraulic issues about the safety of light water reactors are related to
complicated two-phase flow phenomena. In these phenomena, computational fluid …

Synthesis of a CFD benchmark exercise based on a test in the PANDA facility addressing the stratification erosion by a vertical jet in presence of a flow obstruction

M Andreani, AJ Gaikwad, S Ganju, B Gera… - … Engineering and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
The benchmark exercise discussed in this paper was conducted within the OECD/NEA
project HYMERES. The specific experiment in the PANDA facility chosen for the present …

Development of a multi-dimensional wall-function approach for wall condensation

S Kelm, H Müller, A Hundhausen, C Druska… - … engineering and design, 2019 - Elsevier
As a basis for the further development of a wall-function approach, the SETCOM (Separate
Effect test for Condensation Modeling) facility is operated at Forschungszentrum Jülich to …

Epistemic uncertainty in URANS based CFD analysis of buoyancy driven flows—Comparison of URANS and LES

R Ji, PJ Wenig, S Kelm, M Klein - Annals of nuclear energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The containment is the last barrier to prevent the release of radioactive materials into the
environment in case of a severe reactor accident. Thus, it is important to understand the flow …

On the influence of uncertainty in computational simulations of a high-speed jet flow from an aircraft exhaust

FJ Granados-Ortiz, CP Arroyo, G Puigt, CH Lai… - Computers & …, 2019 - Elsevier
A classic approach to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is to perform simulations with a
fixed set of variables in order to account for parameters and boundary conditions. However …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative study of CFD and 3D thermal-hydraulic system codes in predicting natural convection and thermal stratification phenomena in an experimental …

A Graževičius, A Bousbia-Salah - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural circulation phenomena have been nowadays largely revisited aiming to investigate
the performances of passive safety systems in carrying-out heat removal under accidental …