The multipurpose thermalhydraulic test facility TOPFLOW was designed to investigate steady-state and transient two-phase flows at praxis-relevant operational parameters by the Institute of Fluid Dynamics on the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in the years 2001 and 2002. Since 2003 adiabatic and non-adiabatic test series were planned and executed in close collaboration with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) community. The measured data were used for model development and code validation in the field of thermal hydraulics (Thermofluiddynamics of two-phase flows). Beside these generic activities the facility is applied for various nuclear and procedural projects with industrial founding, e.g. Pressurized Thermal Shock experiments in cooperation with an international consortium as well as for steam condensation tests in a slightly inclined tube.
All publications based on TOPFLOW are welcome.