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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations Volume 2008, Article ID 434212, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2008/434212 Research Article CFD Code Validation against Stratified Air-Water Flow Experimental Data F. Terzuoli, M. C. Galassi, D. Mazzini, and F. D’Auria Department of Mechanics, Nuclear, and Production Engineering, University of Pisa, Via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 Pisa, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to F. Terzuoli, f.terzuoli@ing.unipi.it Received 23 April 2008; Accepted 1 October 2008 Recommended by Ivo Kljenak Pressurized thermal shock (PTS) modelling has been identified as one of the most important industrial needs related to nuclear reactor safety. A severe PTS scenario limiting the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) lifetime is the cold water emergency core cooling (ECC) injection into the cold leg during a loss of coolant accident (LOCA). Since it represents a big challenge for numerical simulations, this scenario was selected within the European Platform for Nuclear Reactor Simulations (NURESIM) Integrated Project as a reference two-phase problem for computational fluid dynamics (CFDs) code validation. This paper presents a CFD ´ analysis of a stratified air-water flow experimental investigation performed at the Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse in 1985, which shares some common physical features with the ECC injection in PWR cold leg. Numerical simulations have been carried out with two commercial codes (Fluent and Ansys CFX), and a research code (NEPTUNE CFD). The aim of this work, carried out at the University of Pisa within the NURESIM IP, is to validate the free surface flow model implemented