Transient Thermohydraulic Heat Pipe Modeling:
Incorporating THROHPUT into the CÆSAR Environment
Michael L. Hall
Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, MS-D409, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Phone: 505-665-4312, Email: Hall@LANL.gov

Abstract. The THROHPUT code, which models transient thermohydraulic heat pipe behavior, is being incorporated into the CÆSAR computational physics development environment. The CÆSAR environment provides many beneficial features for enhanced model development, including levelized design unit testing, Design by Contract ^TM(##meyer97 ##meyer97), and literate programming (##knuth92 ##knuth92), in a parallel, object-based manner. The original THROHPUT code was developed as a doctoral thesis research code; the current emphasis is on making a robust, verifiable, documented, component-based production package. Results from the original code are included.

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