TH28 Thermal-Hydraulic and Severe Accident Research Experience)

The session will focus primarily on the NRC's efforts to address current issues in the areas of thermal hydraulics and severe accidents, including experimental and analytical tool development programs. In particular, presenters will discuss the following topics:

• The NRC's use of computational fluid dynamics codes
• Use of SCALE to generate neutrons cross sections libraries in support of PARCS/TRACE reactor analysis activities
• Coupled calculation in TRACE-PARCS code
• MELCOR, the severe accident code
• Overview of DOE's thermal-hydraulics modeling and simulation R&D within the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of LWRs (CASL)

SESSION CHAIR:

Michael Scott, Deputy Director, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES

SPEAKERS/PANELISTS:

• Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Safety Analysis
  Christopher Boyd, Sr. Technical Advisor for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES
• Use of SCALE to Generate Neutrons Cross-Sections Libraries in Support of PARCS/TRACE Reactor Analysis Activities
  Mourad Aissa, Sr. Criticality Safety/Reactor Physics Engineer, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES
• TRACE/PARCS Coupled Calculations
  Nathanael Hudson, Reactor Systems Engineer, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES
• Development and Applications of MELCOR
  Hossein Esmaili, Sr. Reactor Systems Engineer, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES
• Thermal Hydraulics Modeling and Simulation R&D within the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of LWRs (CASL): A DOE Energy Innovation Hub
  Douglas Kothe, Director, Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory

SESSION COORDINATOR(S):

Antony Calvo, Information Technology Specialist, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES, tel: 301-251-7677, e-mail: Antony.Calvo@nrc.gov