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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations Volume 2008, Article ID 732158, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2008/732158 Research Article Simulation of Boiling Flow Experiments Close to CHF with the Neptune CFD Code ˇ ˇ Bostjan Koncar and Borut Mavko Reactor Engineering Division, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia ˇ ˇ ˇ Correspondence should be addressed to Bostjan Koncar, bostjan.koncar@ijs.si Received 11 March 2008; Accepted 26 August 2008 Recommended by Ivo Kljenak A three-dimensional two-fluid code Neptune CFD has been validated against the Arizona State University (ASU) and DEBORA boiling flow experiments. Two-phase flow processes in the subcooled flow boiling regime have been studied on ASU experiments. Within this scope a new wall function has been implemented in the Neptune CFD code aiming to improve the prediction of flow parameters in the near-wall region. The capability of the code to predict the boiling flow regime close to critical heat flux (CHF) conditions has been verified on selected DEBORA experiments. To predict the onset of CHF regime, a simplified model based on the near-wall values of gas volume fraction was used. The results have shown that the code is able to predict the wall temperature increase and the sharp void fraction peak near the heated wall, which are characteristic phenomena for CHF conditions. ˇ Copyright © 2008 B. Koncar and B. Mavko. 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 i