Ricerc@Sapienza

The research activity is focused on two-phase thermal-hydraulic transient analysis based on system TH computer programs. He acquired capability mainly in the safety analysis and TH best-estimate transient calculations, with the aid of RELAP5/mod3.3, RELAP5-3D©, TRACE and MELCOR computer programs, to enhance the safety performances and new system/component design for nuclear reactors (GEN III, GEN IV and fusion) and relative sensitivity analysis, as well through RAVEN, developed at INL. He is involved, in collaboration with ENEA, in the validation of such codes in liquid metals and the developing of a fusion version of RELAP5/mod 3.3 (for liquid metals and helical coil steam generators) and is a member of EU DEMO WCLL Breeding Blanket and Balance of Plant design team and ITER WCLL Water Cooling System for the Test Blanket System design team. He is also involved, in collaboration of Idaho National Laboratory (USA), in the validation of PHISICS/RELAP5-3D NK-TH coupled code for fast reactors mainly through the IAEA CRP Benchmark Analysis of FFTF Loss Of Flow Without Scram Test.