“…Particularly, tube bundle systems in the steam generator part are prone to fretting-wear or even breaking, mainly due to transverse flow-induced vibration problems [4,7,8,13,18,25,23,24]. But, as well as experiments, numerical simulations of fluid-structure interactions in a tube bundle system remain very costly [5,15,28] : in order to give a relevant description of the flow and of the structure displacements, it is necessary to construct a system with a large number of degrees of freedom.…”