CFD Applications to Pressurized Thermal Shock-Related Phenomena

Table 3

CFD simulations of a single-phase flow on the TOPFLOW-PTS experiments.

CFD simulation	Test	Code	Mesh resolution	Two-phase	RSM	LES	Interfacial momentum transfer	Heat and mass transfer	Fluid properties	Simulation
Rodio and Bieder [87] and Bieder and Rodio [34]	TSW 3-4	TrioCFD and NEPTUNE_CFD 3.2.0	TrioCFD: 22 M and NEPTUNE_CFD: 0.78 M cells	NEPTUNE_CFD: two-fluid model	●; SSG (NEPTUNE_CFD)	●; WALE model (TrioCFD)	NEPTUNE_CFD: LIM	NEPTUNE_CFD: DCC model based on the surface divergence model proposed by Lakehal et al. [111] and wall law type model [103]	NEPTUNE_CFD: CATHARE	Transient

TSW: transient steam–water with mass transfer due to condensation. Black circles mean applicable.