Added full core lattice and inner reflector (materials still need adjustment)

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A collection of files associated with the modeling of a Nuclear Thermal Rocket core in OpenMC as a final class project for NE506 at UW-Madison.

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Added full core lattice and inner reflector (materials still need adjustment) #21

Closed dean-krueger closed 7 months ago

dean-krueger commented 7 months ago

This PR addresses issue #12 and #13

A full core lattice was added using Schnitzler et al 2007 as a reference (SNRE configuration, as opposed to "sparse" or "dense" configurations). The inner reflector (three gaps, stainless steel wrapper, and beryllium drum) was modeled as well.

It is worth noting that the materials in this PR are wrong, since I need to update them with the ones you just added (and also SS316).

This PR closes #12 This PR closes #13

Edgar-21 commented 7 months ago

I think this looks nice overall, there is some unassigned space around the edges of the core (can be see using the plotter).

Might be convenient in this PR to rebase onto main and update the materials, and then either add the function you were talking about to make the full core, or that can be left for a later PR