Thermal Hydraulics
We are a leading supplier of thermal hydraulics expertise to the nuclear industry. Our services include:
- Intact circuit fault studies.
- Analysis of Loss of Coolant Accidents (LOCA's).
- Detailed core thermal performance assessments.
- Thermal assessments of plant components in support of structural integrity stress and fatigue analyses.
- Transport flask and fuel storage heat transfer assessments.
These services are supported by our expertise in the use of a number of thermal-hydraulic computer codes, including:
- CFX and FLUENT, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes used for the detailed assessment of complex fluid flow and heat transfer.
- RELAP and TRACE, whole plant analysis codes used primarily for LOCA assessments.
- PANTHER, used for fault studies and fuel management.
- FEAT (Finite Element Analysis Toolbox), a general tool for simulating incompressible flow, heat transfer and stress.
- TAU, developed and owned by Serco and used for modelling heat transfer.
We also have extensive experience of computer code validation, safety case construction and the independent peer review of safety cases.