Selected List of Publications
1. Overview publications
- 2020
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M. Freitag, B. von Laufenberg, and G. Poss. Development and application of an online spectroscopy based gas concentration measurement system applicable for gaseous iodine and steam concentration, SAMMI-2020: OECD/NEA Specialist Workshop on Advanced Measurement Method and Instrumentation for enhancing Severe Accident Management in an NPP addressing Emergency, Stabilization and Long-term Recovery Phase, December 7-10, 2020. Fukushima, JAPAN
- 2018
- M. Freitag, B. von Laufenberg, Measurement and evaluation of the bubble dynamics in the vicinity of a downcomer under conditions typical for pool scrubbing in the wet-well, CFD for Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications, CFD4NRS-7 OECD and IAEA Workshop, September 04 -06, 2018, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2016
- Gupta, S., Freitag, M. and Poss, G. “THAI experimental programme for containment safety assessment under severe accident conditions” Kerntechnik, vol. 81, no. 2, 2016, pp. 138-141. https://doi.org/10.3139/124.110696
- S. Gupta, B. von Laufenberg, M. Freitag, et al. Instrumentation for LWR containment experiments under accident conditions, Specialist Workshop on Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques for Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Livorno, Italy, June 15-17, 2016
- 2015
- S. Gupta, E. Schmidt, B. von Laufenberg, M. Freitag, G. Poss, F. Funke, G. Weber. THAI test facility for experimental research on hydrogen and fission product behaviour in light water reactor containments. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 294 (2015) 183–201
- 2014
- O. Iliev, K. Steiner, A. Zemitis, W. Klein-Heßling, M. Sonnenkalb and M. Freitag. Towards a combined CFD/LP code approach for containment simulations. In Application of CFD/CMFD Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety and Design and their Experimental Validation OECD/NEA—IAEA Workshop CFD4NRS-5, Zurich, Switzerland 2014.
- 2013
- A. Zemitis, O. Iliev, K. Steiner, W. Klein-Heßling, M. Sonnenkalb and M. Freitag. Simulation of multiphysics in a NPP containment using combined codes
with different spatial resolution. In 11th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2013,AIP Volume 1558, pp.144-147, Rhodes, Greece, 2013.
- 2010
- Gupta, Sanjeev ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Fischer, Karsten ; Poss, Gerhard:
Reactor Safety Research Program at THAI Test Facility.
17th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference Cancun/Mexico, October 24-30, 2010
- 2009
- Gupta, Sanjeev ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Fischer, Karsten ; Poss; Gerhard:
An Overview of the THAI OECD Project: Investigation of Hydrogen and Fission Product Issues for Containment Safety Assessment under Severe Accident Conditions.
13th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-13, Kanazawa City/Japan, September 27-October 2, 2009
- Fischer, Karsten ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Poss, Gerhard:
THAI Containment Tests on Fission Product and Hydrogen Behaviour.
Jahrestagung Kerntechnik, Dresden, May 12-14, 2009
- 2006
- Kanzleiter, Teja ; Poss, Gerhard ; Funke, Friedhelm ; Allelein, Hans-Josef:
THAI multi-compartment containment test program.
14th International conference on Nuclear Engineering, Miami/USA, July 17-20, 2006
- 2003
- Ahrens, Gerd et al.:
The THAI facility and program: Thermal hydraulic and iodine experiments for COCSYS validation an overview.
PHEBUS-FP Circuit and Containment Aerosols Interpretation Circle (CACIC), 13th Meeting, Bergen, March 27, 2003
- Fischer, Karsten et al.:
Scaling of Containment Experiments.
10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-10, Seoul/Korea, October 5-9, 2003
Fischer, Karsten et al.: Containment
Code Comparison Exercise on Experiment THAI TH-7.
10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-10, Seoul/Korea, October 5-9, 2003
- 1985
- Kanzleiter, Teja et al.:
DEMONA Experiments to Investigate Aerosol Behaviour within a Containment.
Internation. Symposium on Source Term Evaluation for Accident Conditions, IAEA, Columbus/USA, October 1985, IAEA-SM-281/43
2. Hydrogen distribution, combustion and mitigation
- 2020
- M. Freitag, B. von Laufenberg, M. Colombet, M. Klauck, Measurements of the impact of carbon monoxide on the performance of passive autocatalytic recombiners at containment-typical conditions in the THAI facility, Annals of Nuclear Energy Volume 141, 15 June 2020, 107356
- 2019
- M. Freitag, Measurements of the Impact of Carbon Monoxide on the Performance of Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners at Containment typical Conditions in the THAI Facility, The 9th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research (ERMSAR2019), Clarion Congress Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic, March 18-20, 2019
- 2017
- S. Gupta, M. Freitag et al. „Main outcomes and lessons learned from THAI passive autocatalytic recombiner experimental research and related model development work, 17th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Sept. 3-8, 2017, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
- 2010
- Gupta, Sanjeev ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Fischer, Karsten ; Langer, Guenter ; Poss, Gerhard:
Interaction of a stratified light gas layer with a buoyant jet in containment: Hydrogen/Helium material scaling.
ICAPP-10, Paper 10205, San Diego/USA, June 13-17, 2010. CD-ROM
- Poss, Gerhard ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Gupta, Sanjeev ; Langrock, Gert:
Experimental investigation of Passive Autocatalytic Recombiner (PAR) units under accidental scenarios.
ANS annual meeting, San Diego/USA, June 13-17, 2010. ST-NH2 embedded meeting
- Gupta, Sanjeev ; Funke, Friedhelm ; Poss, Gerhard:
Fission products interaction with Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners under severe accident conditions.
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 2010, vol. 103, pp. 169-170
- 2009
- Schwarz, Siegfried et al.:
Benchmark on Hydrogen Distribution in a Containment Based on the OECD-NEA THAI HM-2 Experiment.
13th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-13, Kanazawa City/Japan, September 27-October 2, 2009
- 2008
- Fischer, Karsten ; Kanzleiter, Teja:
Large Scale Experiments on Gas Distribution in the Containment.
ENS TOPSAFE, Dubrovnik/Croatia, September 30October 03, 2008
- Poss, Gerhard:
Influence of Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners on Iodine Volatility.
ICONE-16, Orlando/USA, 2008
- 1999
- Wolf, Lothar ; Holzbauer, Helmut ; Cron, Thomas:
Detailed Assessment of the Heiss-Dampf Reactor Hydrogen Mixing Experiments E11.
Nuclear Technology, vol. 125 (1999), pp 119-135
- 1990
- Valencia, Luis ; Wolf, Lothar:
Overview of First Results on H2 Distribution Test at the Large Scale HDR Facility.
2nd International Conference on Containment Design and Operation, Toronto/Canada, October
- 1981
- Jahn, Hermann ; Langer, Guenter:
Hydrogen Distribution in Subcompartmented ContainmentsAnalyses and Experiments.
Proc. Workshop on the Impact of Hydrogen on Water rReactor Safety, NUREG/CR-2017, Albuquerque/USA, August 1981
3. Fission product behaviour
- 2019
- M. Freitag, S. Gupta, S. Beck & M. Sonnenkalb (2019) Experimental and Analytical Investigations of Aerosol Processes—Wash-Out and Wash-Down, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 193:1-2, 198-210, DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2018.1479091
- 2018
- M. Freitag, Challenges and uncertainties in providing validation data for fission product transport modelling, ANS Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty International Conference (BEPU 2018), Real Collegio, Lucca, Italy, May 13-19, 2018
- 2017
- M. Freitag, S. Beck, M. Sonnenkalb, S. Gupta. Experimental and analytical investigations of aerosol processes: wash-out and wash-down, 17th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Sept. 3-8, 2017, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
- 2016
- Kobalz et al. “Assessment of Aerosol Generation and Injection Devices for Representative Nuclear Core Melt Aerosol Species” 11th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-11), Gyeongju, Korea, October 9-13, 2016
- M. Freitag et al. “Particulate Fission Product Wash down from Containment Walls and Installation Surfaces” 47th Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology, 10th –12th May 2016. Hamburg, Germany
- 2015
- S. Gupta, F. Funke, G. Langrock, G. Weber, B. von Laufenberg, E. Schmidt, M. Freitag, G. Poss. THAI experiments on volatility, distribution and transport behaviour of iodine and fission products in the containment. In Int. OECD-NEA/NUGENIA-SARNET Workshop on the Progress in Iodine Behaviour for NPP Accident Analysis and Management, Marseille, 2015
- 2014
- B. von Laufenberg, M. Colombet and M. Freitag. Wash-down tests of silver aerosol from stainless steel and painted surfaces. In 10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-10), Okinawa, Japan, 2014.
- K. Fischer, M. Freitag and H. S. Kang. Mechanistic model of iodine mass transfer at pool surfaces. In Nuclear Engineering and Design, volume 278, pages 627-631, 2014.
- 2012
- Fischer, Karsten ; Weber, Gunter ; Funke, Friedhelm ; Langrock, Gert:
Experimental Determination and Analysis of Iodine Mass Transfer Coefficients from THAI Test Iod-23.
5th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research (ERMSAR 2012), Cologne/Germany, March 21-23, 2012
- 2011
- Funke, Friedhelm ; Langrock, Gert ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Poss, Gerhard ; Weber, Gunter ; Allelein, Hans-Josef:
Iodine Oxides in Large-Scale THAI Tests.
Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol. 245 (2012), pp. 206-222
- 2010
- Gupta, Sanjeev ; Weber, Gunter ; Funke, Friedhelm ; Poss, Gerhard:
Large Scale Experiments on Iodine Distribution and Behavior in the Containment.
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2010), vol. 103, pp. 453-455
- Weber, Gunter ; Funke, Friedhelm ; Poss, Gerhard:
Iodine Transport and Behaviour in Large-Scale THAI Tests.
4th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research ERMSAR ENEA, Bologna/Italy, May 11-12, 2010
- 2006
- Weber, Gunter ; Allelein, Hans-Josef ; Funke, Friedhelm ; Kanzleiter, Teja:
COCOSYS and ASTEC analysis of iodine multi-compartment tests in the THAI facility.
14th International conference on Nuclear Engineering ICONE, Miami/USA, July 17-20, 2006
- 2005
- Kanzleiter, Teja ; Fischer, Karsten ; Haefner, Wolfgang ; Allelein, Hans-Josef ; Schwarz, Siegfried:
THAI Multicompartment Experiments with Atmosphere Stratification.
11th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-11, Avignon/France, October 2-6, 2005
- 2004
- Funke, Friedhelm ; Weber, Gunter ; Allelein, Hans-Josef ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Morell, Wilfried ; Poss, Gerhard:
Multi-compartment iodine tests in the THAI facility.
EUROSAFE 2004, Berlin, November 8-9, 2004
- 2003
- Kanzleiter, Teja:
Thermal Hydraulic and Aerosol-depletion Experiment VANAM M3.
Second Meeting of the Group of Experts on the Development of a Phenomena-based Validation Matrix for Ex-vessel (Containment) Models and Codes, NEA, Issy-les Moulineaux/France,
June 5-6, 2003
- 2001
- Fischer, Karsten:
KAEVER Experimental Basis of International Standard Problem 44.
Final Workshop on the International Standard Problem 44 (KAEVER), Cologne, June 14, 2001, available through Gesellschaft fuer Reaktorsicherheit, Cologne
- 1994
- Fischer, Karsten et al.:
Coupling of Source Term Codes with Themal Hydraulics.
Commission of the European Communities, Report ST(94)-P131, 1994
- 1993
- Fischer, Karsten ; Schall, Manfred , Wolf, Lothar:
CEC Thermal Hydraulic Benchmark Exercise on FIPLOC Verification Experiment F2 in Battelle Model Containment. Experimental Phases 2, 3 and 4. Results of Comparisons.
Commission of the European Communities, EUR 14454 EN, 1993
- 1992
- Poss, Gerhard ; Scheibel, Hans-Georg ; Sturm, Bernhard:
A Two Path Lengths Spectral Extinction Photometer.
J. Aeros. Sci., Vol. 23, Suppl. 1, pp. S337-S340, 1992
- 1991
- Allelein, Hans Josef ; Fischer, Karsten ; Kanzleiter, Teja ; Schwarz, Siegfried ; Weber, Gunter:
The VANAM Experiments M1 and M2Test Results and Multi-Compartmental Analysis.
European Aerosol Conference EAC 91, Karlsruhe, September 16-20, 1991
- 1986
- Kanzleiter, Teja et al.:
Results from DEMONA Aerosol Experiments.
14th Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting, Gaithersburg/USA, October 27-31, 1986
- Kanzleiter, Teja et al.:
DEMONA ExperimentsResults from Aerosol Generation and Long-Term Thermal Hydraulics.
ENC 86, Geneva, June 1986
- 1985
- Kanzleiter, Teja:
Thermal Hydraulic Behaviour of a Containment Atmosphere Measured in the DEMONA Aerosol Experiments.
OECD-CSNI Specialists Meeting on Nuclear Aerosols, Karlsruhe, September 1984, KfK 3800/CSNI 95, (1985)
4. Thermal hydraulics
- 2020
- M. Freitag, B. von Laufenberg. Large field particle image velocimetry proving code validation data for containment CFD application, CFD for Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications, CFD4NRS-8, November 25th-26th Online conference hosted by EDF/OECD
- 2018
- W. Klein-Heßling, et al. Validation and Application of a coupled CFD/LP Code System for Containment Simulations, 12th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-12), Qingdao, China, October 14-18, 2018
- M. Freitag et al. Benchmark exercise TH-27 on natural convection with steam injection and condensation inside the extended THAI facility, Annals of Nuclear Energy 116 (2018) 90–104
- 2017
- P. Gurski, M. Koch, M. Freitag, Blind simulation of the TH28 experiment with COCOSYS, 48th Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology, 16th –17th May 2017. Berlin, Germany
- M. Freitag et al. “Benchmark exercise TH27 on natural convection with steam injection and condensation inside the extended THAI facility”, 8th Conference on Severe Accident Research ERMSAR 2017, May 16th-18th 2017, Warsaw, Poland
- 2016
- M. Freitag, E. Schmidt, S. Gupta, G. Poss, Simulation benchmark based on THAI-experiment on dissolution of a steam stratification by natural convection, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 299, 2016, Pages 37-45, ISSN 0029-5493
- 2016
- M. Freitag, E. Schmidt, Double Blind Simulation Benchmark Based on Initial Operation Test of the Extended THAI+ Facility on Steam Condensation and Light Gas Mixing by Natural Convection, CFD for Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications, CFD4NRS-6 Workshop, September 13 -15, 2016, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2014
- H. S. Kang, S. W. Hong and M. Freitag. CFD Analysis for natural convection induced by steam condensation in the THAI facility. In Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society Autumn Meeting, Pyeongchang, Korea, October, 2014
- Kang, Hyung Seok, Hong, Seong Wan, & Freitag, Martin (2014). CFD Analysis for Natural Convection Induced by Steam Condensation in the THAI Facility. Proceedings of the KNS 2014 Fall Meeting, Korea, Republic
- H. S. Kang, S. W. Hong and M. Freitag. CFD Analysis for dissolution of a steam-air stratification by natural convection in the THAI Facility. In. Int. Workshop on Nuclear Safety and Severe Accident (NUSSA-2014), Chiba, Japan, 2014
- E. Schmidt, S. Gupta, M. Freitag and G. Poss. Dissolution of a steam air stratification by natural convection. In 2014 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants ICAPP, Charlotte, NC, 2014.
- M. Freitag, E. Schmidt, S. Gupta and G. Poss. Simulation benchmark based on THAI experiment on dissolution of a steam stratification by natural convection. In Application of CFD/CMFD Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety and Design and their Experimental Validation OECD/NEA—IAEA Workshop CFD4NRS-5, Zurich, Switzerland 2014.
- 2012
- M. Gärtner, S. Jakirlic, M. Freitag and C. Tropea. Dissolution of a light gas stratification in a safety containment model: computational study using the scale-adaptive k-ω-SST model of turbulence. In THMT'12, International Symposium Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer 7, Palermo, Italy, 2012.
- 2011
- Gaertner, Marco ; Tropea, Cameron ; Jakirlic Suad ; Gupta, Sanjeev:
Stereo particle image velocimetry measurements of an unstable air stratification due to natural convection in a model containment.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-14, Toronto/Canada, September 25-30, 2011. Paper 621
- Balewski, Benjamin ; Gupta, Sanjeev ; Fischer, Karsten ; Poss, Gerhard:
Experimental Investigation of Air Bubble Flows in a Water Pool.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-14, Toronto/Canada, September 25-30, 2011. Paper 036
- Gupta, Sanjeev ; Balewski, Benjamin ; Fischer, Karsten ; Poss, Gerhard:
Experimental Investigations of BWR Pressure Suppression Pool Behavior Under Loss of Coolant Accident Conditions.
ICAPP-11, Nice/France, May 2-5, 2011. Paper 11389 CD-ROM
- 2003
- Fischer, K. et al.:
Containment Code Comparison Exercise on Experiment THAI TH7.
10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics NURETH-10, Seoul/Korea, October 5-9, 2003
- 2002
- Kanzleiter, Teja:
THAI experiment TH2 on formation and dissolution of a stratified containment atmosphere.
Jahrestagung Kerntechnik, Stuttgart, May 14-16, 2002
