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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations Volume 2011, Article ID 941239, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2011/941239 Research Article CFD Modeling of Wall Steam Condensation: Two-Phase Flow Approach versus Homogeneous Flow Approach S. Mimouni,1 N. Mechitoua,1 A. Foissac,1 M. Hassanaly,2 and M. Ouraou2 1 Electricite de France RD Division, 6 Quai Watier, 78400 Chatou Cedex, France ´ 2 INCKA, 85, Avenue Pierre Grenier, 92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France Correspondence should be addressed to S. Mimouni, stephane.mimouni@edf.fr Received 14 March 2011; Revised 3 May 2011; Accepted 6 May 2011 Academic Editor: Giorgio Galassi Copyright © 2011 S. Mimouni 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. The present work is focused on the condensation heat transfer that plays a dominant role in many accident scenarios postulated to occur in the containment of nuclear reactors. The study compares a general multiphase approach implemented in NEPTUNE CFD with a homogeneous model, of widespread use for engineering studies, implemented in Code Saturne. The model implemented in NEPTUNE CFD assumes that liquid droplets form along the wall within nucleation sites. Vapor condensation on droplets makes them grow. Once the droplet diameter reaches a critical value, gravitational forces compensate surface tension force and then droplets slide over the wall and form a liquid film. This approach allows taking into account simultaneously the mechanical drift between the droplet and the gas, the heat and mass transfer on droplets in the core of the flow and the condensation/evaporation