[en] The assumption of a reactor core left alone without any cooling facility leads to the hypothetical core meltdown accident. Within the scope of a modular system of computer codes for description by calculation of the relevant heat-up and failure phenomena within the reactor pressure vessel there is established a model for simulating the interaction between partly flooded reactor vessel including internals and dried out region of the active core, this model being applied in the two code units KOCH and UMGEB. By KOCH the time and space dependant steam supply in the core is specified, by UMGEB heating of the support structure relevant for the accident sequence is coupled to the active core region. Both code units together with the other modules of the system allow a flexible simulation of the core meltdown accident. This is demonstrated for a 1000 MWe model reactor by means of the two examples 'flooded core' and 'dry core'. (orig.)