Research grants and contracts

Fundamental studies of boiling in nuclear reactors (ASCOMP/EPSRC)

Sponsor(s):

Investigators:

CASE (CCFE)

Sponsor

Research Project(s)

  • Fusion blanket systems studies

Researcher(s)

The coupling of RELAP and STAR-CCM+ (CD Adapco/EPSRC)

Sponsor

The incorporation of BEPU approaches into PSA (Corporate Risk Associates/EPSRC)

Sponsor

  • CRA
  • EPSRC

Researcher(s)

Level II PSA and operator actions (Corporate Risk Associates/EPSRC)

Sponsor

CARE (Computation for Advanced Reactor Engineering) (EPSRC)

This is a multi-University Consortium Grant, bringing together computational nuclear researchers in Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College.

Sponsor

Research Project(s)

Links to the principal projects being performed within this present group are under:

Researcher(s)

Links to the websites of the individual main investigators at these institutions are:

  •  (University of Leeds)
  •  (University of Manchester)
  •  (University of Newcastle)
  •  (51³Ô¹ÏÍø College)
  •  (51³Ô¹ÏÍø College)

The main researchers in this group are:

  • Nicolas Cinosi
Validation and verification of critical heat flux prediction (EPSRC)

Sponsor

Researcher(s)

  • Nicolas Cinosi
Thermal hydraulics for boiling and passive systems (EPSRC)

Sponsor

Critical heat flux analysis in non-circular channels (MoD/EPSRC)

Sponsor

Researcher(s)

  • Jonathan Manning
Nuclear thermal hydraulics (Rolls Royce)

Contact details

Dr Michael Bluck
Head of Nuclear Engineering Group

Mechanical Engineering

Tel: ++44 (0)20 7594 7055
Email: m.bluck@imperial.ac.uk