Transient Thermohydraulic Heat Pipe Modeling: Incorporating THROHPUT into the CAESAR Environment

摘要

The THROHPUT code, which models transient thermohydraulic heat pipe behavior, is being incorporatedrninto the CAESAR computational physics development environment. The CAESAR environment provides many beneficialrnfeatures for enhanced model development, including levelized design, unit testing, Design by Contract? (Meyer,rn1997), and literate programming (Knuth, 1992), in a parallel, object-based manner. The original THROHPUT codernwas developed as a doctoral thesis research code; the current emphasis is on making a robust, verifiable, documented,rncomponent-based production package. Results from the original code are included.