Research activities at IKE
Reactor safety
- Improvement of the modelling approaches in German severe accident codes for the simulation of severe accidents in nuclear reactors with core melting
- Evaluation of the models in the European severe accident code ASTEC
- Improvement of the decay heat removal through self-sufficient (active) and passive systems
Heat transfer
- Heat Pipes, Thermo siphons
- Technologiy for supercritical CO2 applications
Thermo-Fluid Dynamics
- Turbulence modelling for applications with supercritical CO2
- Thermohydraulics at fluid-structure interactions
- OpenFOAM simulations
- CFX simulations using the software ANSYS
