Coupled system thermal Hydraulics/CFD models: General guidelines and applications to heavy liquid metals

This work aims to review the general guidelines be adopted perform coupled System Thermal Hydraulics (STH)/CFD calculations. The analysis is often required when complex phenomena characterized by different characteristic time and length scales are investigated. Indeed, STH/CFD coupling main drawbacks of both stand-alone codes overcome, reducing computational cost providing more realistic solutions. A several works available in literature involving approaches, codes, time-advancing schemes application fields given. Besides techniques, spatial domains numerical analysed detail. brief description applications heavy liquid metal systems also reported; lessons drawn frame these other then considered order develop a set good practice for applications.