Advances in Thermal Hydraulics of Nuclear Power Plants
A special issue of Journal of Nuclear Engineering (ISSN 2673-4362).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 1551
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanical engineering; thermal-hydraulics of fusion and nuclear reactors; design of small modular reactors; two-phase flow phenomena in power utilities; energy storage and flexibility of power plants
Interests: thermal hydraulics; advanced nuclear reactors; nuclear safety systems; energy systems; heat transfer and fluid mechanics; integrated energy systems; experiments and modeling; heat exchangers; system and component modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From its beginning, nuclear power engineering has relied heavily on thermal hydraulics. The thermal hydraulics systems were, and have remained, the essence of safe operation of nuclear power plants during steady and transient regimes as well as in accident situations. The investigations of thermal hydraulics phenomena have been expanding to involve more and more convoluted fluid flow and heat transfer mechanisms under conditions of high heat fluxes, within complex flow domains and for diverse coolants.
This Special Issue, titled “Advances in Thermal Hydraulics of Nuclear Power Plants”, of JNE is devoted to thermal hydraulics in a contemporary fleet of nuclear power plants and in reactor technologies under development. This Special Issue is thought to be a collection of research papers in which both the phenomena and the applied technical solutions in the field of nuclear thermal hydraulics are addressed through comprehensive discussions, modeling, numerical simulations and experimentation. The authors are invited to submit manuscripts which deal with thermal hydraulics research in light water PWR and BWR reactors, CANDU reactors, liquid metal reactors, molten salt reactors, high temperature gas reactors, fast reactors and other advanced nuclear reactors, small modular reactors and micro-reactors, as well as in fusion reactors. The Special Issue welcomes manuscripts which deal with thermal hydraulics mechanisms such as two-phase flow, phase transition, critical heat flux and dryout, severe accidents (LOCA, core melting and subsequent debris bed cooling), flow in subchannels with rod bundles, heat transfer in steam generators, passive cooling systems, thermal hydraulics of containment and hydrogen generation, extraction of heat from plasma facing components, managing high heat fluxes in divertor and thermal hydraulics of other fusion reactor components. Review papers on thermal hydraulics in nuclear power plants in general or in a specific field will be appreciated.
Dr. Milica Ilic
Dr. Piyush Sabharwall
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- computational fluid dynamics
- thermal hydraulics system codes
- thermal hydraulics experiments
- advanced and Gen IV reactors
- small modular reactors
- fusion reactors
- passive systems
- transient and severe accident conditions
- multi-phase flow and phase transition
- containment thermal hydraulics
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