Home > Nuclear safety > Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in Nuclear Reactor Safety (NRS)

Background

Recognising the growing and widespread use of CFD in many branches of engineering, a CNSI action plan was drawn up in 2001 which resulted in the creation of three writing groups (WGs) with mandates to perform the following tasks:

  1. WG1: provide a set of best practice guidelines for the applications of CFD to NRS problems;
  2. WG2 (click here to access): evaluate existing CFD assessment bases and identify gaps that need to be filled;
  3. WG3: summarise the state-of-the-art of extended application of CFD codes to two-phase NRS problems.

Documents

NEA/CSNI/R(2007)5 - Best Practice Guidelines for the use of CFD in Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications

NEA/CSNI/R(2007)13 - Assessment of CFD for Nuclear Reactor Safety Problems

NEA/CSNI/R(2010)2 - Extension of CFD Codes Application to Two-Phase Flow Safety Problems - Phase 2

NEA/CSNI/R(2011)14 - Proceedings of the CFD for Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications (CF4NRS-3) Workshop

OECD/NEA & IAEA Workshops

CFD4NRS - "Benchmarking of CFD Codes for Applications to Nuclear Reactor Safety"
5-7 September 2006, Garching, Munich, Germany

XCDF4NRS - "Experiments and CFD Code Applications to Nuclear Reactor Safety"
10-12 September 2008, Grenoble, France

CFD4NRS-3 - "Experimental Validation and Application of CFD and CMFD Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety Issues"
14-16 September 2010, Washington, DC, USA

CFD4NRS-4 - "Experimental Validation and Application of CFD and CMFD Codes in Nuclear Reactor Technology"
10-12 September 2012, Daejeon, Korea - annoucement

Benchmark activities

OECD/NEA sponsored benchmark exercise: Thermal fatigue in a T-Junction

Related links

GAMA overview

GAMA mandate

GAMA upcoming events

GAMA reports

GAMA and CFD members' area (password protected | go to password page)

Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) overview

E-mail contact: |


Last reviewed: 23 January 2012