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The 34th German CFD network of competence meeting: numerical 3D simulation of reactor primary cooling circuit and containment flows

  • Angel Papukchiev EMAIL logo , Berthold Schramm and Joachim Herb
Published/Copyright: March 12, 2024
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Abstract

The 34th German CFD Network of Competence Meeting was held in March 2023 at the Gesellschaft für Anlagen-und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH in Garching, Germany. Twenty-one scientific presentations, distributed in the two sessions “Simulation of Reactor Cooling Circuit Flows” and “Simulation of Reactor Containment Flows” were presented. This paper gives a short summary of the different contributions.


Corresponding author: Angel Papukchiev, 382262 Gesellschaft für Anlagen-und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH , Boltzmannstr. 14, 85748 Garching, Germany, E-mail:

Funding source: Federal Ministry for Economics Climate Action (BMWK)

Award Identifier / Grant number: UMRS 1607

Funding source: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV)

  1. Research ethics: The local Institutional Review Board deemed the study exempt from review.

  2. Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Research funding: Large part of the scientific work presented in this paper was/is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economics Climate Action (BMWK) or the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) based on decisions by the German Bundestag. This holds also for the GRS activities within the German CFD Network of Competence, for which the authors express their gratitude.

  5. Data availability: Not applicable.

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Received: 2023-10-23
Accepted: 2024-01-22
Published Online: 2024-03-12
Published in Print: 2024-04-25

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