For the long-term development of nuclear power, innovative nuclear systems such as Gen-IV reactors and transmutation systems need to be developed for meeting future energy challenges. Thermal-hydraulics is recognized as a key scientific subject in the development of innovative reactor systems. This project is devoted to important crosscutting thermal-hydraulic issues encountered in various innovative nuclear systems, such as advanced reactor core thermal-hydraulics, single phase mixed convection and turbulence, specific multiphase flow, and code coupling and qualification. The main objectives of the project are: Generation of a data base for the development and validation of new models and codes describing the selected crosscutting thermal-hydraulic phenomena. This data base contains both experimental data and data from directnumerical simulations (DNS). Development of new physical models and modeling approaches for more accurate description of the crosscutting thermal-hydraulic phenomena such as heat transfer and flow mixing, turbulent flow modeling for a wide range of Prandtl numbers, and modeling of flows under strong influence of buoyancy. \u2022 Improvement of the numerical engineering tools and establishment of a numerical platform for the design analysis of the innovative nuclear systems. This platform contains numerical codes of various classes of spatial scales, i.e. system analysis, sub-channel analysis and CFD codes, their coupling and the guidelines for their applications. The project will achieve optimum usage of available European resources in experimental facilities, numerical tools and expertise. It will establish a new common platform of research results and research infrastructure. The main outcomes of the project will be a synergized infrastructure for thermal-hydraulic research of innovative nuclear systems in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11904,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[],"class_list":["post-19679","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"title":"Thermal-hydraulics of Innovative Nuclear Systems ","acronym":"THINS","project_uuid":"61837f4c-b567-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","start_date":"01\/02\/2010","end_date":"01\/02\/2014","funder":"EU FP7","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE GMBH<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Commissariat A L Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP<\/a><\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Paul Scherrer Institut<\/a><\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN<\/a><\/td>\n | Sweden<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT<\/a><\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pisa<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| ANSALDO NUCLEARE SPA<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Computational Dynamics Limited<\/a><\/td>\n | United Kingdom<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| INSTITUT JOZEF STEFA<\/a><\/td>\n | Slovenia<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Imperial College of science, Technology and Medicine<\/a><\/td>\n | United Kingdom<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| ASCOMP GmbH<\/a><\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| GESELLSCHAFT FUER ANLAGEN - UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT (GRS) MBH<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| LAPPEENRANNAN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO<\/a><\/td>\n | Finland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Texas Engineering Experiment Station<\/td>\n | USA<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","proj_website":"https:\/\/www.ifrt.kit.edu\/thins\/","project_status":"Completed","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10304,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:42","post_content":"Publications: https:\/\/publications.crs4.it\/pubdocs\/index.php?idAuthor=665 Vincent Moreau, senior researcher at CRS4, takes his degree in Numerical Analysis at Paris-XI University in 1990, makes his one year Scientific Service at ONERA on atmospheric lightning numerical modeling and undergoes a Ph.D. thesis at Paris-XI, presented in 1994, on \"Functional Analysis applied to pseudo-Newtonian flows\". In 1995, he works at ENEL-CRT of Pisa on two-phase flow simulation and modeling. He arrives at CRS4 in 1996 where he works on fluid-structure interaction. Since 1997, he works in the ADS field, making CFD simulations and analysis, participating to the FP5 PDS-XADS, FP6 EUROTRANS, FP7 THINS, CDT, SEARCH and MAXSIMA, and H2020 PASCAL and PATRICIA European projects. Between 2002 and 2014, he also works occasionally on turbulent combustion simulation. From 2015 to 2019 still by means of CFD analysis, he contributes in the H2020 framework to the MYRTE project on high level waste transmutation and to the SESAME project on the criticalities of the liquid metal fluid-dynamics for applications to the clean nuclear power of the future. Currently, still in the same field of activity, he contributes to the European Projects LESTO, TRANSPARANT and ANSELMUS as well as FALCON consortium.","post_title":"Vincent Moreau","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"vincent-moreau","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-06 19:12:37","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-06 17:12:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/vincent-moreau\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10288,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:22","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:22","post_content":"Luca Massidda graduates in Mechanical Engineering at Cagliari University in 1997. He works for two year as a mechanical engineer for a private company, designing special valves for refinery plants. Since 1999 he works at CRS4, where he gains experience in mechanical simulation and in scientific programming on parallel machines. He is involved in several projects: the design of fission fragment space propulsion system for the Italian Space Agency, the design of several equipment of the LHC and other experiments for CERN, the simulation of elastic wave propagation in various fields, the design and simulation of a solar power system, among others. In 2008 he works at CERN as a scientific associate developing simulation software for beam dump studies. He is now working again at CRS4 in fluid dynamics, turbulent combustion and mechanical simulation and he is group leader of the Smart Energy Systems team.","post_title":"Luca Massidda","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"luca-massidda","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-06 19:12:15","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-06 17:12:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/luca-massidda\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |