Thermal Hydraulics and Modelling for Nuclear Energy Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear energy systems are heavily dependent on thermal hydraulic performance for the maintenance of safety limits and for the efficient transmission of energy to end users. Advanced reactor systems for both terrestrial and space applications continue to push the limits of our experimental and computational capabilities to their limits. Furthermore, the rising field of Digital Twins is quickly blurring the lines between traditional modelling and simulation for design and real-time predictive performance models with full two-way system integration. This is pushing the need for higher fidelity modelling and simulation, deeper validation and verification, and faster computation to meet the goals of a Digital Twin.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advancements in thermal hydraulics, modelling and simulation, and digital twin efforts to support nuclear energy systems.
Topics of interest to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Thermal hydraulics;
- Modelling and simulation;
- Real-time systems;
- Heat transfer;
- Computational fluid dynamics;
- Nuclear energy systems;
- Experimental thermal fluids;
- Digital twins;
- Advanced nuclear reactors.
Dr. Wesley Williams
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermal fluid systems
- heat transfer
- thermal hydraulics
- nuclear reactor systems
- modelling and simulation
- digital twins
- nuclear energy
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