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
                       – 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
                       – 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
                       – PREDICTION OF HEAT TRANSFER DETERIORATION AND RECOVERY
                         Zewen Zou, Shuisheng He
                       – MODELLING SUPERCRITICAL HEAT TRANSFER USING A TWO FLUID APPROACH
                         Dariusz Mikielewicz
                       – E XPERIMENTAL 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
                       – 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
                       – 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
                         – 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
                         – 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

10.30 – 11.00    Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00    PARALLEL SESSIONS
11.30 – 13.00    MATERIALS AND CORROSION RESISTANCE – I
                         – 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 10S 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
                          – 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, Wei Liu, Hui Yu
                          – 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
                          – 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
                           – 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
                            – 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
                            – 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
                          – 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 Xheng
                          – 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, van Otic, Jie Zhu
08.30 – 10.30    CFD APPLICATIONS
                          – 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
                         – DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER OF SUPERCRITICAL WATER IN VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL PIPES
                           Yifan Bai, Han Wang, Jinghui Wu, Minyun Liu, Haicai Lyu,Yanping Huang
                         – 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
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)