Towards new studies in two-phase thermal-hydraulics for industrial applications

This paper gives a short presentation of the FASTNET team preliminary conclusions. This team tried to define a scientific strategy aimed at developing thermal-hydraulics in the nuclear and non-nuclear industry fields. The reflections were mainly conducted as a three stage process: the identification of industrial problems, whose better resolution rely on a knowledge improvement in thermal-hydraulics, a state-of-the-art analysis, which led to identify the actual limitations (and their origin) for the different components of the thermal-hyraulics expertise (physical modeling, numerical simulation, instrumentation, analytical and validation experiments), the proposition of a coherent strategy to develop expertise in all these fields of thermal-hydraulics. This paper is a summarized version of a more detailed progress report. The work is still in progess...