Agentic Porting, Construction and Initial Verification and Validation of Libraries within the Open Source Unified TRAnsient Multi-Phase Advanced Reactor simulation Kit (Outram Park) Part I: A Software Engineering Log for Thermal Hydraulics
Agentic porting of multiple open-source libraries into Rust, with human in the loop, has been performed for construction of modules within the Open-source Unified TRAnsient Multi-Phase Advanced Reactor simulation Kit (Outram Park). With this new methodology, verification and validation with human expertise, rather than code generation, has become the bottleneck in developing reliable simulation codes. In this work, we present the porting of OpenFOAM libraries into the Outram-Foam Rust libraries, their preliminary verification and validation (V&V) efforts, and their subsequent use in the development of open-source two-phase homogeneous-equilibrium (HEM) choked-flow solvers for the Thermo-hydraulic AI Multi-Phase INtegrated Emulator System (TAMPINES) libraries within Outram Park, such as tampines-steam-tables. V&V efforts of Outram-Foam show that the cavity and Sod shock tube cases agree with literature values to within acceptable margin. Moreover, the preliminary development of tampines-steam-tables shows good agreement with Moody's HEM charts. Thereafter, the 1D HEM solver, developed agentically, is presented and preliminarily validated against the Edwards blowdown case. Productivity increases were observed with the use of Claude Code, but domain expertise supplied by human experts remains critically required to ensure the generated code can solve the problem effectively. Further work remains to be done in V&V, but the agentic coding methodology described here demonstrates considerable potential to speed up production and development of open-source libraries such as Outram Park.