Principal Investigator Emilio Baglietto
Computational multi-phase flow techniques are being developed to provide a faithful representation of the complex boiling and two-phase flow regimes. Applications include the use of interface tracking techniques to develop cross-flow correlations for subchannel analysis codes and use of the Euler-Euler approach to represent the boiling phenomena in PWR and BWR cores. These methods have demonstrated great potential, and pioneering work is ongoing to bring them up to develop reliable design tools.