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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations Volume 2012, Article ID 757498, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/757498 Research Article Benchmark of Subchannel Code VIPRE-W with PSBT Void and Temperature Test Data Y. Sung,1 R. L. Oelrich Jr.,1 C. C. Lee,1 N. Ruiz-Esquide,2 M. Gambetta,2 and C. M. Mazufri2 1 Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Business Unit, 1000 Westinghouse Drive, Suite 452, Cranberry Township, PA 16066, USA 2 INVAP Nuclear Engineering Department, Avenida Comandante Luis Piedrabuena 4950 San Carlos de Bariloche, R8403CPV Rio Negro, Argentina Correspondence should be addressed to Y. Sung, sungy@ Received 23 March 2012; Accepted 1 July 2012 Academic Editor: Maria Avramova Copyright © 2012 Y. Sung et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper summarizes comparisons of VIPRE-W thermal-hydraulic subchannel code predictions with measurements of fluid temperature and void from pressurized water reactor subchannel and bundle tests. Using an existing turbulent mixing model, the empirical coefficient derived from code predictions in comparison to the fluid temperature measurement is similar to those from previous mixing tests of similar bundle configurations. The predicted steady-state axial void distributions and time-dependent void profiles based on the Lellouche and Zolotar model generally agree well with the test data. The void model tends to predict lower void at the upper elevation under bulk boiling. The void predictions are in closer agreement with the measurements from the power increase, temperature increase, and flow reduction transients than the depressuriza