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)