Foreword Selected papers from the 18th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-18)

摘要

Thermal hydraulics continues to be a crucial area of exploration when it comes to understanding the operation and behavior of nuclear systems. Because of the variety of present and future nuclear systems, thermal hydraulics encompasses the phenomena applicable to single- and multi-phase fluids as well as a number of fluid types, including gas, water, and liquid salts and metals. The field of thermal hydraulics includes the experimental exploration of these phenomena as well as the development of tools and techniques for this exploration. In recent years, the modeling of thermal-hydraulic phenomena has come to the forefront, and it is an active area of research involving multi scale, multidimensional, and multiphysics simulation. For this special issue of Nuclear Technology, 14 articles were selected from a large pool of quality papers that were submitted to the 18th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-18). In addition to this special issue, two more special issues are being published, in Nuclear Engineering and Design and Nuclear Science and Engineering, for other papers selected from the NURETH-18 proceedings.