“…Sato et al (2009) focused on the flow field inside the gap of a 7rods, wire-wrapped hexagonal bundle, observing a lateral flow following the wrapping direction of the wire. Recently, the university of Texas performed a number of experiments in a 61-rods test section for code validation, as reported in Goth et al (2018), and for studying vortical structures that may occur in the flow, as described in and in . Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies have focused on modelling the flow around a single wrapped-wire pin (Shams et al, 2018;Fischer et al, 2007), and on simulating the entire bundle for validation purposes (Pointer et al, 2008;Merzari et al, 2016;Obabko et al, 2016;Brockmeyer et al, 2017).…”