Conference Agenda

Interface Capturing simulations are becoming a more practical tool for complex flow analysis due to significant improvement of flow solvers, pre- and post-processing tools as well as rapid development of high-performance computing capabilities. This creates exciting opportunities to study complex reactor thermal hydraulic phenomena. This presentation will focus on the history and review of numerical flow simulation approaches in recent years, capabilities development and validation as well as the applications to practical problems of interest. We will discuss typical computational methods used for those simulations, provide some examples of past work, as well as computational cost estimates and affordability of such simulations for research and industrial applications. New generation methodologies are required to take full advantage of those capabilities to greatly enhance the scientific understanding of complex flow phenomena in various conditions relevant to nuclear energy applications.