Brandon Langley

Processing domain-specific languages is a challenging task that is often neglected in research software development. The Workbench Analysis Sequence Processor (WASP) provides a solution that streamlines domain-specific application input and data processing in a manner that facilitates both its use in current and future research software and the associated integrated development environments intended to accelerate the software’s adoption and impact. By providing lexical analysers, parsers, and interpreters, WASP creates an easy-to-traverse parse tree data structure accompanied by a validation and template engine and provides several lightweight reusable input languages and the Microsoft Language Server Protocol. These reusable and extensible capabilities are intended to improve research software engineering and accelerate software adoption, maintenance, and impact.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Successful modeling and simulation of molten salt reactors (MSRs) requires quality thermodynamic and thermophysical data for the working fluid. A goal of the Molten Salt Reactor Campaign is to develop aquality-controlled database of these properties that will be available for a multitude of different salt types. Furthermore, properties shall be defined in a standardized format that can then be used by reactor modeling and analysis tools. This report details work done to develop an approach for integrating salt properties into a MSR analysis tool. This activity required defining a format for thermophysical properties that could be produced from salt data delivered by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and which could be read into a reactor analysis tool. The reactor analysis tool used for this activity was the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors-developed tool, VERA. The changes implemented in VERA to accept the thermophysical properties file are discussed and tested and the process of reading thermophysical properties into VERA for a MSR simulation is demonstrated. In addition to being able to get fluid properties into the simulation tool, it is also necessary that a process exists for adding new salt data to the salt database. The NEAMS Workbench ismore » being expanded with a new package called ThermPhys that will provide a user interface for adding new salts to the database while performing input validation and ensuring data quality. « less