D. Bestion

TL;DR: The NEPTUNE project constitutes the thermal-hydraulic part of the long-term Electricite de France and Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique joint research and development program for the next generation.

TL;DR: The NURESIM Reference Simulation Platform for Nuclear Reactors (NURESIM) as mentioned in this paper is a reference platform for the simulation of nuclear nuclear power plants, which includes a set of software tools, physical models, generic functions and assessment results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the modeling and numerical simulation with the NEPTUNE_CFD code of cavitation phenomena and boiling bubbly flows and propose a modification of the classical nucleate boiling model to overcome the strong model sensitivity with respect to near wall grid refinement.

TL;DR: The ECORA project as mentioned in this paper evaluated CFD software for reactor safety applications, resulting in best practice guidelines (BPGs) for an efficient use of CFD for nuclear safety problems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on two-phase conditions that are potentially at the origin of PTS, i.e., the formation of temperature gradients in the thick vessel walls with consequent localized stresses and the potential for propagation of possible flaws present in the material.