This release adds two large new features:
- A thermohydraulic solver. Now you can define flow paths through the receiver along with flow path inlet temperatures and flow rates and srlife will solve for the resulting fluid and tube temperatures. This eliminates the need for an external thermohydraulic solver.
- Time independent, statistical failure models for ceramic materials. srlife can now evaluate the reliability of ceramic receivers and other CSP components!
This release also includes the data required to analyze components made of monolithic SiC as well as new fluid properties for supercritical carbon dioxide working fluids.