FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
The International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) is pleased to announce
Heat and Mass Transfer in Nuclear Safety Applications:
Severe accident, Environment contamination and Waste storage
HMTNS - 16
25-28 October 2016, Antibes - Juan les Pins (France)
For further information, please see: http://www.ichmt.org/hmtns-16
OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE
In the post-Fukushima context, as well as in the context of global discussion of the future energy
resources, the civil nuclear energy is the subject of close evaluations in which safety plays a major
role. Indeed, the public pressure about safety and environment issues is stronger than ever. And
yet, significant progress has been made on the understanding of severe accident conditions and
mitigation, the outcome of large-scale environmental contamination and the problem of nuclear
waste disposal.
The main objective of the symposium is to bring together actors involved in nuclear safety issues
to promote exchanges between researchers from complementary backgrounds. State-of-the-art
concepts and results will be presented with a perspective on nuclear safety applications.
Accident prevention and management issues raise numerous challenges involving complex
scientific questions. The proposed symposium will be clearly on the scientific edge with topics on
multi-physics and multiscale aspects, high thermal and mechanical constraints, inverse methods,
etc.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Session 1: Severe accidents
 In-vessel corium/debris coolability (hydrogen production, debris bed coolability, invessel melt retention)
 Ex-vessel corium interactions and coolability (corium-concrete interaction, fuelcoolant interaction, steam explosion)
 Containment behaviour (Hydrogen risk, mitigation, ...)
Session 2: Environmental impact
 Atmospheric dispersion
 Water dispersion (river, sea, ocean)
 Underground dispersion
 Soil contamination
 Inverse modelling
Session 3: Waste storage
 Spent fuel pools (wet storage)
 Transport and storage casks
 Long-term storage (dry storage, fractured media, transport properties of tight rocks)
For each session, the following items should be discussed:
 Evaluation of the current physical understanding and the current capability to formulate it
in usable mathematical models;
 Experimental data available and scaling issues;
 Identification of the appropriate level of modelling details, Identification of suitable
modelling techniques;
 Evaluation of existing numerical and development methods, Evaluation of the benefits of
advanced numerical methods, Validation with experimental data.
ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING
Three technical sessions will be organised. Each session will consist in technical presentations
followed by a general discussion leading to, as far as possible, conclusions and
recommendations. The presentations will focus on experiments and modelling rather than
code or project descriptions.
Chairmen: F. Fichot (IRSN, France) and M. Quintard (IMFT, France)
Scientific Committee
• Won-Pil Baek (KAIST)
• Sevostian Bechta (KTH)
• F.-B. Cheung (Penn State Univ.)
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Peter Croot (NUI Galway)
Frédérique Eyrolle-Boyer (IRSN)
Brenda Howard (CEH)
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Christophe Journeau (CEA)
Ivo Kljenak (JSI)
Olivier Masson (IRSN)
Anne Mathieu (IRSN/PRPCRI/SESUC)
Jean-Michel Matray (IRSN)
Alex Miassoedov (KIT)
Sandro Paci (Univ. Pisa)
Pavel Povinec (Comenius Univ.
Bratislava)
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Sébastien Savoye (CEA)
Jorg Schafer (Bordeaux Univ.)
Bal Raj Sehgal (KTH)
Jun Sugimoto (Kyoto Univ.)
Keiko Tagami (NIRS)
Shinji Ueda (IES)
Mikhail Veshchunov (IAEA)
Zhihong Zhao (Tsinghua Univ.)
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Local Organisation Committee
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F. Fichot (IRSN, France)
N. Chikhi (IRSN, France)
P. Duru (IMFT, France)
PRESENTATIONS / PUBLICATIONS
The Symposium will have both stand-up presentations of contributed papers and poster
presentations.
Contributed papers must clearly state the purpose, the findings and the originality of their
contribution. Acceptance for oral presentations will be based on the review of extended abstracts.
Accepted papers will be published by Begell House, Inc., in a proceedings volume and will be
available in the form of flash memory disks to the participants at the registration.
After the conference, authors of contributed papers will have the opportunity to submit an
improved/enhanced version of their text, to be considered for publication in a journal after going
through a new review process.
The Symposium will also include poster sessions to allow the researchers to discuss their most
recent works in a relaxed atmosphere. Selection for the poster session will be based on one- page
abstracts only. No further text is required for the posters.
All authors are expected to send their abstracts and contributed papers in camera-ready format
(in pdf and as a MS-Word document), electronically. The guidelines for preparing camera-ready
papers can be found on the Web pages of the Symposium, http://www.ichmt.org/hmtns-16.
SCHEDULE OF DATES
Extended abstracts:
May 15, 2016
June 15, 2016
Electronic copies of extended abstracts
Notification of acceptance
Full Papers:
July 15, 2016
August 15, 2016
Sept. 15, 2016
Sept. 15, 2016
Posters:
August 15, 2016
August 30, 2016
September 15, 2016
September 15, 2016
Electronic copies manuscripts
Notification of acceptance
Final, camera-ready manuscripts (in PDF or MS Word document)
Registration fees due
Electronic copies of 1-page Abstracts
Notification of acceptance
Final, camera-ready extended abstracts in PDF and DOC format (to
ICHMT Secretariat)
Registration fees due
-----------------------------------------------------------PLEASE NOTE THE IMPORTANT DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
-----------------------------------------------------------CORRESPONDENCE (for information and for sending papers/abstracts)
For full information about the Symposium, see: http://www.ichmt.org/hmtns-16 or write to
Michel Quintard and Florian Fichot (symposium co-chairs) or to Faruk Arinç (secretary-general of
ICHMT).
Prof. Michel Quintard
Symposium Co-Chair
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de
Toulouse (IMFT)
Allée du Professeur Camille Soula
31400 Toulouse - France
Tel: +33 534322921
E-mail: Michel.Quintard@imft.fr
Prof. Faruk Arinç
ICHMT Secretary-General
Mechanical Engineering Department
Middle East Technical University
06800 Ankara, Turkey
Tel: +90 312 210 5214 or 5213
Fax:+90 312 210 1429
E-mail: farinc@ichmt.org
Dr. Florian Fichot
Symposium Co-Chair
Institute for Radiation Protection and
Nuclear Safety (IRSN)
BP3 - 13115 St Paul lez Durance - France
Tel : +33 442199519
E-mail : florian.fichot@irsn.fr