11th International Symposium on SCWRs (ISSCWR-11)
Pisa, Italy - February 3-5, 2025
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2025
10.00 – 11.00 Registration
11.00 – 11.30 Welcome Addresses
11.30 – 13.00 Invited Lectures
Chairpersons: Katsumi Yamada, Walter Ambrosini
- 25 YEARS OF SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTOR RESEARCH IN EUROPE: LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
Thomas Schulenberg
- CURRENT STATUS OF NUCLEAR-POWER INDUSTRY OF THE WORLD
Igor Pioro, Constantin Zvorykin, Ali Machrafi, Aryan Das
- BRIDGING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN NUCLEAR EDUCATION NETWORK (ENEN) IN BUILDING THE SYNERGY BETWEEN EURATOM PROJECTS
Kateryna Piliuhina, Camila Boix Mansilla
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 Prof. John Derek Jackson Memorial Session
Chairpersons: Shuisheng He, Peixue Jiang
- A BRIEF REVIEW OF PROFESSOR JACKSON’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE RESEARCH OF HEAT TRANSFER TO FLUIDS AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE
Shuisheng He, Peixue Jiang, Walter Ambrosini
- WALL ROUGHNESS DESIGN FOR SUPERCRITICAL FLOWS
Emanuele Zanetti, Kamel Hooman
- EXPLORING SIMILARITY THEORIES FOR HEAT TRANSFER AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURES: COMPUTATIONAL INSIGHTS AND EXPERIMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
Sara Kassem, Andrea Pucciarelli, Walter Ambrosini
- SUPERCRITICAL FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER OF HYDROCARBON FUELS
Dongsheng Wen and Hui Gao
- MODELLING SUPERCRITICAL HEAT TRANSFER USING A TWO FLUID APPROACH
Dariusz Mikielewicz
- EXPERIMENTAL AND MACHINE LEARNING STUDY ON MIXED CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER TO SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE CO2 UNDER COUPLED BUOYANCY AND FLOW ACCELERATION EFFECTS
Yuli Cao, Ruina Xu, Zhenchuan Wang, Peixue Jiang
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.30 Parallel Sessions
16.30 – 18.30 SCWR Design and Integration – I
Chairpersons: Igor Pioro, Thomas Schulenberg
- DESIGN CONCEPT OF A SUPER PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR
Thomas Schulenberg, Szabolcs Czifrus
- DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL FOR THE SUPER PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR
Alvaro Juan Fernandez, Thomas Schulenberg
- CORE DESIGN OF THE SMALL SUPER-FAST REACTOR TO REDUCE DEBRIS CRITICALITY
Homare Sugimoto, Akifumi Yamaji
- PROGRESS ON A PRE-CONCEPTUAL SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED SMALL MODULAR REACTOR
Armando Nava Dominguez, Xianmin Huang, Michael Gaudet, Alberto Mendoza, Jimmy Chow
- IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ECC-SMART: JOINT EUROPEAN CANADIAN CHINESE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL MODULAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
Michaela Krýdová and Monika Šípová
16.30 – 18.30 Reactor Physics and Coupling with Thermal-Hydraulics
Chairpersons: Czifrus Szabolcs, Valerio Giusti
- COUPLING OF APROS AND SPNDYN TO ANALYSE THE SCW-SMR CONCEPT WITHIN ECC-SMART
Tamás Varju, Zeno Bertesina, Boglárka Babcsány
- HYBRID FINITE ELEMENT SPN ANALYSIS OF AN SCW-SMR CONCEPT WITHIN THE ECC-SMART PROJECT
Gergely Illés, Boglárka Babcsány
- MULTIPHYSICS ASSESSMENT OF THE SCW SMR HEAT GENERATING CHANNEL CONDITION USING DIFFERENTIAL METHOD OF THE HEAT TRANSFER INTENSITY AND RESISTANCE CALCULATION
Vladislav Filonov, Olexander Kovalenko, Dmitriy Fedorov, Yuliia Filonova
- NEUTRONIC ANALYSIS OF MICRO-HETEROGENEOUS DUPLEX ThO2 -PuO2 FUEL PIN WITH BURNUP CHARACTERISTICS FOR PT-SCWR
Shuvendu Shivam, Satya Sekhar Bhogilla, Goutam Dutta
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2025
08.30 – 10.30 Parallel Sessions
08.30 – 10.30 SCWR Design and Integration – II
Chairpersons: Thomas Schulenberg, Daniela Marusakova
- A VISION FOR SUPER CRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTORS: AN OPINION PAPER
Armando Nava Dominguez, Alberto Sáez Maderuelo, Radek Novotny, Monika Sipova, Elena Poplavskaia, Lefu Zhang
- R&D PLATFORM FOR THE SCWR
Stanislav Pustovalov, Alexey Sedov, Anton Lapin
- A REVIEW OF STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES OF SUPER CRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTOR (SCWR) DEPLOYMENT AND TECHNOLOGY READINESS ASSESSMENT OF A SCWR- SMR DESIGN
Seyed Kamal Mousavibalgehshiri, Guglielmo Lomonaco, Reza Sadeghi
- APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUPERCRITICAL WATER REACTOR (SCWR) AND THERMAL HYDRULIC MODELING OF SCWR USING DEEP LEARNING
Megha Mohite, Raghvendra Upadhyay, Santosh Trimbake
- PHYSICS-INFORMED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE FLUID CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER
Qingyan Weng, Yuli Cao, Haowei Lu, Peixue Jiang and Ruina Xu
08.30 – 10.30 Licensing and Safety and Other Technology Relevant Issues
Chairpersons: Andrej Prošek, Armando Nava Dominguez
- DESIGN OF ACTIVE DISTURBANCE REJECTION CONTROL (ADRC) BASED CONTROL STRATEGY FOR SUPERCRITICAL CO2 BRAYTON CYCLE-COOLED REACTOR SYSTEM
Ghulam Jillani, Jianqiang Shan, Xue Qi, Pan Wu
- ASSESSMENT OF THE FAILURE TIME OF THE ECC-SMART SUPERCRITICAL REACTOR VESSEL IN THE LATE PHASE OF A SEVERE ACCIDENT
Vladislav Filonov, Dmitriy Fedorov, Olexander Kovalenko, Yaroslav Dubyk, Yuliia Filonova
- GENERIC RESULTS OF THE SCW-SMR PRE-LICENSING STUDY IN THE FRAME OF ECC-SMART PROJECT
Andrej Prošek, Leon Cizelj, Ildikó Boros, Attila Kiss, Ivan Otić, Alberto Sáez-Maderuelo, Jiří Duspiva, Guido Mazzini, Monika Šípová, Gabriel Pavel, Oliver Martin, Radek Novotny, Yaroslav Dubyk
- LSTM NETWORKS FOR COMPONENT DAMAGE PREDICTIONS
Ivan Otic
- PROGRESS ON A PRE-CONCEPTUAL SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED SMALL MODULAR REACTOR – A DETERMINISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT
Armando Nava Dominguez, Xianmin Huang
- PREDICTION OF HEAT TRANSFER DETERIORATION AND RECOVERY
Zewen Zou, Shuisheng He
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00 Parallel Sessions
11.30 – 13.00 Materials and Corrosion Resistance – I
Chairpersons: Lefu Zhang, Jan Macák
- ASSESSMENT OF CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF CLADDING MATERIALS FOR SCW-SMR IN STATIC
CONDITIONS: RESULTS OBTAINED IN ECC SMART PROJECT
Manuela Fulger, Valentin Lautaru, Daniel Petrescu, Aurel David, Catalin Marian Ducu
- MODELLING THE LONG-TERM CORROSION BEHAVIOUR OF CANDIDATE FUEL CLADDING ALLOYS FOR A SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTOR
Radek Novotny, David Guzonas
- CORROSION BEHAVIOUR OF ALLOY 800H AND STAINLESS STEEL 310S UNDER CONDITIONS RELEVANT TO SUPERCRITICAL-WATER SMALL MODULAR REACTOR CONCEPTS
Kittima Khumsa-Ang, Linhui Yao, Armando Nava-Dominguez
- IN-SITU ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION TESTING OF 310S STEEL IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER
Petr Roztočil, David Dašek, Jaromír Valtr, Petr Čech, Mariana Arnoult-Růžičková, Michal Novák, Radek Novotný, Petr Sajdl, Jan Macák
- LONG-TERM CORROSION BEHAVIOR AND STRESS CORROSION SENSITIVITY OF TUBULAR
CLADDING MATERIALS FOR SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTORS
Tao Huang, Yang Gao, Kai Chen, Lefu Zhang
- IN-SITU CORROSION STUDY OF 800H ALLOY IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER
Jaromír Valtr, Mariana Arnoult-Růžičková, Michal Novák, Radek Novotný, Xavier Arnoult, Daniela Marušáková, Petr Sajdl and Jan Macák
11.30 – 13.00 Thermal-Hydraulics – I
Chairpersons: Attila Kiss, Yaroslav Dubyk
- INTRODUCTION OF BENCHMARK SPECIFICATIONS FOR SUPERCRITICAL WATER LOOP
Alis Ruscak Musa, Guido Mazzini, Jakub Spacek, Rostislav Fukac
- ANALYSES OF IBSCTH TESTS USING SYSTEM AND CFD CODES
Guido Mazzini, Alis Ruscak Musa, Jakub Spacek, Walter Ambrosini, Andrea Pucciarelli, Sara Kassem
- LOSS OF COOLANT FLOW ACCIDENT ANALYSIS OF CHINESE SMALL MODULAR SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTOR
Pan Wu, Qi Xue, Min Feng, Lianjie Wang and Wei Liu
- THERMAL-HYDRAULIC DESIGN OF PRINTED CIRCUIT HEAT EXCHANGER BASED ON DECOUPLED POROUS MEDIUM MODEL
Xiyan Guo, Zhouhang Li, Hua Wang
- NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A SUPERCRITICAL FLOW IN A MICROCHANNEL USING THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD
Vinícius Matsuda, Julia Sassa, Ivan Martins, Luben Cabezas Gómez, Tiago Moreira
- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBCRITICAL CO2/N2 MIXTURES IN A VERTICAL CIRCULATION LOOP
Yongchang Feng, Lin Chen, Dong Yang, Rufan Song, Igor Pioro
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 Parallel Sessions
14.00 – 16.00 Materials and Corrosion Resistance – II
Chairpersons: Monika Šípová, Jan Vit
- NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE INTERGRANULAR STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF NICKELBASED ALLOYS IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER
Yule Wu, Jiamei Wang, Xianglong Guo, Lefu Zhang
- A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STRESS CORROSION CRACKING INITIATION BEHAVIOR OF ALUMINA-FORMING AUSTENITIC STEELS AND BASE STEELS IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER AT 600 °C
Xianglong Guo, Yang Gao, Lefu Zhang
- MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF FAST NEUTRON RADIOLYSIS IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER AT TEMPERATURES OF 400–600 °C AND 25 MPa
Md Shakhawat Hossen Bhuiyan, Jintana Meesungnoen, Abida Sultana, Jean-Paul Jay-Gerin
- STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF NEUTRON IRRADIATION ON THE CORROSION AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF CANDIDATE MATERIALS FOR SCW-SMR
Monika Šípová, Jitka Klaisnerová, Daniela Marušáková, Jan Vít
- IRRADIATION EFFECT ON THE CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF SIC IN ADVANCED REACTORS
Liyan Qiu, Jing Qian, Linhui Yao
14.00 – 16.00 Thermal-Hydraulics – II
Chairpersons: Guido Mazzini, Alis Ruscak Musa
- EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF FLUID-TO-FLUID SCALING MODELS FOR DETERIORATED HEAT TRANSFER AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURES
Benjamin Sears, Stavros Tavoularis
- NON-MODAL STABILITY ANALYSIS OF A LUMPED MODEL OF THE SUPER-CRITICAL WATER REACTOR
Carolina Introini, Antonio Cammi, Eric Cervi, Laura Savoldi
- EFFECT OF DETERIORATED HEAT TRANSFER ON THE ONSET OF SUPERCRITICAL FLOW INSTABILITY IN HEATED CHANNELS
Vijay Chatoorgoon
- ASSESSMENT OF FLUID-TO-FLUID SIMILARITY CRITERIA TO EVALUATE DETERIORATION OF HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS IN FLOWS OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS
Chukwudi Azih
- ASSESSMENT OF LOOK-UP TABLES FOR THE PREDICTION OF HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT DISTRIBUTION IN ROD BUNDLES COOLED BY SUPERCRITICAL WATER
Rashed Md Sardar, Akhmed Baisov, Ahmed Raouf Zakaria Ras el Oued
- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON CRITICAL FLOW OF SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE AT TRANSIENT STATE
Dongxu Zhang, Weiqing Li, Minfu Zhao, Peng Liang
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.30 Parallel Sessions
16.30 – 18.30 Materials and Water Chemistry
Chairpersons: Alberto Sáez-Maderuelo, Manuela Fulger
- BREAKAWAY OXIDATION OF AFA STEEL IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE
Qiyin Zhou, Huigang Shi, Jianye Chen, Xianglong Guo, Lefu Zhang
- REVEALING THE SUPERIOR OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF ALLOY 690 IN DEAERATED SUPERCRITICAL WATER AND SUPERCRITICAL CO2 AT 600 °C
Jiamei Wang Jiamei, Kai Chen, Xianglong Guo, Lefu Zhang
- STUDY OF THE CORROSION BEHAVIOR IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER OF AN AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL 316L MANUFACTURED BY COLD SPRAY
Alberto Sáez-Maderuelo, Francisco J. Perosanz, Ricardo Fernández-Serrano, Gaspar González Doncel, Radek Novotny, Michal Novak, Thibaud de Terris, Gilles Rolland, Thomas Girard
16.30 – 18.30 Thermal-Hydraulics – III
Chairpersons: Stavros Tavoularis, Andrea Pucciarelli
- EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SUPERCRITICAL WATER HEAT TRANSFER IN A 2X2 ROD BUNDLE
Tiago Moreira, Mark Anderson
- FORCED-CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER TO SCW WITH UPWARD FLOW IN SHORT VERTICAL BARE TUBES
Igor Pioro, Evgen N. Pis’mennyi, Mehmet Kavalci, Marcus Cornelius, Mark Wspanialy, Laura Heyns
- HEAT TRASNFER IN SHORT VERTICAL 1- AND 3-ROD BUNDLES COOLED WITH SUPERCRITICAL WATER
Igor Pioro, Evgen N. Pis’mennyi, Mark Wspanialy, Laura Heyns, Mehmet Kavalci, Marcus Cornelius
- ANALYSIS OF HEAT TRANSFER AT SUPERCRITICAL CONDITIONS WITH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM
Meiqi Song, Xiaojing Liu, Ting Yang
- RESEARCH ON LEAKAGE AND INJECTION OF HIGH-ENERGY FLUIDS FROM PIPELINES AND NARROW GAPS
Qincheng Bi, Tao Zhang, Jinle Zhao, Fan Feng
- NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF SUB-CHANNEL CFD FOR ROD BUNDLES WITH WIRE WRAPPED SPACERS
Chenxin Zhang, Bo Liu, Shuisheng He
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2025
08.30 – 10.30 Parallel Sessions
08:30 – 10.30 Special Topic: Roughness Effects
Chairpersons: Pan Wu, Tiago Moreira
- MODELLING THE INFLUENCE OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON HEAT TRANSFER AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE
Sara Kassem, Andrea Pucciarelli, Walter Ambrosini
- PREDICTION OF THE HEAT TRANSFER TO SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE FLUID AT ROUGH SURFACE
Fabian Wiltschko, Ivan Otic, Xu Cheng
- A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF PYRAMID ROUGHNESS ON TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER
Kenneth Chinembiri, Shuisheng He, Wei Wang
- CFD MODELING AND VALIDATION OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUID HEAT TRANSFER ALONG ROUGH WALL SURFACES
Haipeng Li, Henryk Anglart
- TREATMENT AND EVALUATION OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF FUEL CLADDING FOR HEAT TRANSFER EXPERIMENTS IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS
Jan Vít, Monika Šípová, David Bricín
- ANALYSIS OF ROUGHNESS EFFECTS ON TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER TO SUPERCRITICAL WATER IN A HORIZONTAL TUBE
Yuhao Xu, Jivan Khatry, Ivan Otic, Jie Zhu
08.30 – 10.30 CFD Applications
Chairpersons: Ivan Otic, Fabian Wiltschko
- DISCUSSING CFD ANALYSIS OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL UPWARD FLOW UNDER SUPERCRITICAL CONDITIONS
Attila Kiss, Balázs Kiss
- COMPARISON OF CFD ANALYSIS RESULTS OF HORIZONTAL FLOW IN SCW-SMR FUEL ASSEMBLY WITH AND WITHOUT WRAPPED WIRE SPACERS
Attila Kiss, László Adorján
- FLUID-TO-FLUID SIMILARITY AND CFD PREDICTIONS OF HEAT TRANSFER AT SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE WITH INFLUENCES OF BUOYANCY AND TURBULENCE MODELS: VALIDATION AGAINST IAEA BENCHMARK
Youcef Bouaichaoui and Lin Chen
- TRANSIENT CFD ANALYSIS OF SUPERCRITICAL CO2-BASED NATURAL CIRCULATION LOOP
Shubham Rajesh Vaidya, Goutam Dutta, Harish Pothukuchi
- COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SUPERCRITICAL FLOW OF WATER OVER EIGHT ROD BUNDLE IN A PRESSURE TUBE
Abhijeet Vaidya, Ritesh Bagul, Ananta Borgohain, S.K. Sinha
- NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF HEAT TRANSFER FOR SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS FLOWING HORIZONTALLY AND VERTICALLY DOWNWARD USING A NEW TURBULENCE MODEL
Abdullah Alasif, Andrea Pucciarelli, Osman Siddiqui, Afaque Shams
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00 Wrap up of Sessions
All Chairpersons
12.00 – 13.00 Closing Panel: Status and perspective of SCWR concepts and future commercialisation
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon:
OPEN FORUM PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND SIDE MEETINGS
(TBD)