Advances of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Nuclear Reactor Design and Safety Assessment

Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra Joshi is an Indian chemical engineer, nuclear scientist, consultant and teacher, widely known for his innovations in nuclear reactor designs and generally regarded as a respected teacher. He is the DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, J. C. Bose Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and is the recipient of Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Sciences and many other awards and recognitions. He received the third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 2014, from the President of India, for his services to the field of chemical engineering and nuclear science. He is widely published in many journals including the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Chemical Engineering Science and Nuclear Engineering and Design Arun Kumar Nayak is the Outstanding Scientist and Head of the Thermal Hydraulics Section of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and a Professor at Hombi Bhabha National Institute in Mumbai, India. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela, India, and joined the Reactor Design and Development Group in BARC in 1990 after completing the Orientation Course in Nuclear Engineering from the BARC Training School in Mumbai, India. He obtained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and has worked at the Interfaculty Reactor Institute of the Technical University Delft, as well as in the Nuclear Power Safety Division of the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm as a Post-doc Scientist. He has also worked at Institute of Nuclear Energy (IKE) in the University of Stuttgart under the DST-DAAD programme. He has received several awards and is a Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Science and Indian National Academy of Engineering. He has published more than 350 papers in academic journals and conferences, and is an Associate Editor of the journals “Computational Thermal Sciences” and “Frontiers in Energy Research – Nuclear Energy” and is a member of the editorial board of “Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering."

• 1. IntroductionArun K. Nayak2. Computational fluid dynamicsJyeshtharaj B. Joshi, Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, Ashwin W. Patwardhan, Arun K. Nayak, Vishnu Pareek, Monica Gumulya, Chunliang Wu, Nitin Minocha, Eshita Pal, Mukesh Kumar, Vishal Bhusare, Shashank Tiwari, Dhiraj Lote, Chaitanya Mali, Ameya Kulkarni, Sarang Tamhankar3. CFD model development for two-phase flowsMarco Colombo, M. Fairweather, Simon P. Walker, Mukesh Kumar, Avinash Moharana, Arun K. Nayak, Jyeshtharaj B. Joshi, Arnab Dasgupta, Dinesh K. Chandraker, Tanskanen Vesa, Patel Giteshkumar4. Evaluation of safety of light-water-cooled reactors using CFDThomas Höhne5. Design of passive safety systems for advanced reactors using CFDJyeshtharaj B. Joshi, Arun K. Nayak, Nitin Minocha, Eshita Pal, Ankur Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Avinash Moharana6. Modelling of core melt scenarios in nuclear reactorsArun K. Nayak, Parimal P. Kulkarni, Pradeep Pandey, Sumit V. Prasad7. Application of CFD for assessment of containment safetySunil Ganju, Aditya Karanam, Shubham Mishra, Nandan Saha, Bhuvaneshwar Gera, Priyanshu Goyal, Pavan K. Sharma, Ashish V. Shelke8. Modeling of fire with CFD for nuclear power plants (NPPs)Pavan K. Sharma9. Applications of computational fluid dynamics in design of sodium-cooled fast reactorsKaruppanna Velusamy10. CFD and systems thermal-hydraulic analysis in the design and safety assessment of high-temperature reactorsPieter G. Rousseau, Charl G. Du Toit, Herman J. Van Antwerpen11. Heat transfer and computational fluid dynamics for molten salt reactor technologies Piyush Sabharwall, Manuele Aufiero, Massimiliano Fratoni12. Conclusions and future recommendation Jyeshtharaj B. Joshi, Arun K. Nayak