Moltres
Open Source Modeling of Molten Salt Reactors
Moltres is a MOOSE-application code designed for simulation of molten salt reactors.
Use
Outlines of the kernels and boundary conditions used to construct the Moltres governing equations can be found on the Moltres wiki. Breakdown of a full-fledged Moltres input file can be found here. New Moltres users who have never used MOOSE before are encouraged to check-out its wiki, tutorials, and examples to help understand the underlying Moltres components.
Install
Moltres relies on the MOOSE framework. To install MOOSE please follow the
instructions at this guide. After installing
MOOSE, you can install Moltres by running the following commands in a shell
after changing into the directory holding your MOOSE directory (perhaps ~/projects
):
git clone https://github.com/arfc/moltres
cd moltres
git submodule init
git submodule update
make -j8
You may also compile a debug version of Moltres by running METHOD=dbg make
-j8
. Note that you should replace 8
with the number of processors available
on your machine.
Testing
To ensure that Moltres is functioning properly, run ./run_tests -j8
from the
root of the Moltres directory.
Development
API documentation for those interested in understanding or developing Moltres
can be found here. If you ever want to
contribute changes to the Moltres repository, make sure you run
scripts/install-format-hook.sh
before making any commits. This will ensure
that any commits you make adhere to the MOOSE/Moltres C++ style. Pull requests
should be submitted to the devel
branch of the arfc/moltres
repository. Each
pull request is automatically tested for style and for whether it breaks any of
the core Moltres physics capabilities.
Contact
Contact Alex Lindsay at al007@illinois.edu for more information or even better, please post to our discussion list at moltres-users@googlegroups.com.