Reaction Network Input

[gsgall]

Reason

For plasmas chemical reaction networks are very important. We need a good way for users to provide an arbitrary reaction network, determine which species are being modeled as fluid versus which are being modeled as particles and then handle that in general.

Design

In plasma physics there is currently no standard method for reaction network input. In an effort to create a standard platform agnostic input method I am currently developing a method tor read reaction networks, give an important summary of the network and species that are being used, and give all relevant information to FENIX to enable arbitrary reaction networks. This work can be seen here however, this is an NCSU specific GitHub instance and we are working on allowing outside collaborators to access this link. Once this project is at a production quality it will be put into a conda package and integration with MOOSE should be easy. Additionally, this project uses gtest for unit testing and will be thoroughly tested.

Impact

This will enable a standard method for reaction network input not only for the FENXI project but between all MOOSE plasma applications as well as unrelated projects.