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The CATHARE code strategy and assessment

F. Barre, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1990 - 
- Vol. 124, Iss: 3, pp 257-284
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The French thermal-hydraulic code CATHARE is being developed in Grenoble by EDF, FRAMATOME and CEA as discussed by the authors and the validation process is performed in two steps: qualification of the models against separate effect tests and verification of the code on integral loop tests.
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This article is published in Nuclear Engineering and Design.The article was published on 1990-12-01. It has received 115 citations till now.

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The physical closure laws in the CATHARE code

TL;DR: In this paper, a 2-fluid thermal-hydraulic code capable of simulating thermal and mechanical phenomena occurring in the primary and secondary circuits of PWRs for a wide variety of accidental situations is presented.
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Methodology for the reliability evaluation of a passive system and its integration into a Probabilistic Safety Assessment

TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology has been developed to evaluate the reliability of passive systems characterised by a moving fluid and whose operation is based on thermal-hydraulic (T-H) principles.
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Hybrid flux-splitting schemes for a common two-fluid model

TL;DR: Results from test cases show that the aim of this paper is to construct hybrid FVS/FDS schemes which properly combine the accuracy of FDS in the resolution of sharp mass fronts and the robustness of FVS which ensures stability under stiff conditions.
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FLICA-4: a three-dimensional two-phase flow computer code with advanced numerical methods for nuclear applications

TL;DR: Toumi et al. as discussed by the authors developed a finite volume numerical method for 3D two-phase flow calculations based on an extension of Roe's approximate Riemann solver to define convective fluxes versus mean cell quantities.
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An upwind numerical method for two-fluid two-phase flow models

TL;DR: In this article, an upwind numerical method for a six equation two-fluid model is presented based on a linearized Riemann solver, which has proved to be stable on nonstaggered grids and capable of generating accurate nonoscillating solutions for two-phase flow calculations.
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The physical closure laws in the CATHARE code

TL;DR: In this paper, a 2-fluid thermal-hydraulic code capable of simulating thermal and mechanical phenomena occurring in the primary and secondary circuits of PWRs for a wide variety of accidental situations is presented.
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Core Liquid Level Depression due to Manometric Effect during PWR Small Break LOCA

TL;DR: The 10, 5 and 2.5% cold leg break loss-of-coolant accident experiments were conducted by using the Large Scale Test Facility (LSTF) of the Rig of Safety Assessment (ROSA)-IV program as discussed by the authors.
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Calculation of LOFT L3-5 experiment with CATHARE

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present some results obtained in calculating the LOFT L3-5 experiment (2.5% cold leg break with pumps off) with CATHARE.