Assessment of Machine Learning-Based Critical Heat Flux Models in the CTF Subchannel Code for Square Rod Bundle Prediction

The paper evaluates machine learning (ML) models for predicting critical heat flux (CHF) in square rod bundles using the CTF subchannel code and the EPRI rod bundle CHF database. It compares pure and hybrid residual correction models in local and semilocal forms, finding that tube-trained ML models transfer well to rod bundle geometries and outperform traditional empirical correlations and lookup tables. The local hybrid LUT model shows the best overall performance, while the semilocal pure ML model remains highly competitive, indicating that significant improvements in rod bundle CHF prediction are achievable even with tube-only training data.

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