Updates reachability/WALKTHROUGH.md's "What's next" section with:
- PJ reduction approach + validation (0.1% max error on n over 50 min)
- Concrete reach horizons: 60s and 300s clean, 1800s+ partial
- Per-halfspace pass/fail against inv1_holds at T=300s
- Low-T_avg-trip tube looseness flagged as over-approximation, not
physical failure
- 30x horizon improvement framing
Also: refresh reach_operation_result.mat so the Pluto app has live data
to ingest (ran reach_operation.jl; six halfspace margins match the
MATLAB/Julia baseline, all discharged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full toolchain port. Numerical equivalence verified against MATLAB:
- main_mode_sweep.jl: every mode's final state matches MATLAB to 3-4 dp
- reach_operation.jl: per-halfspace margins match MATLAB exactly
- barrier_lyapunov.jl: per-halfspace bounds match (best Qbar from sweep
yields max|dT_c| = 33.228 K either side)
- barrier_compare_OL_CL.jl: OL gamma 1.038e13, CL gamma 1.848e4
matching the MATLAB result; LQR helps by ~20,000x on every halfspace.
Phase summary:
Phase 1: pke_solver.jl, plot_pke_results.jl (Plots.jl), main_mode_sweep.jl
Phase 2: reach_linear.jl, reach_operation.jl, barrier_lyapunov.jl,
barrier_compare_OL_CL.jl, load_predicates.jl
Phase 3 (this commit): delete plant-model/ entirely, delete reach
code from reachability/ keeping predicates.json + docs,
git mv julia-port/ -> code/, update root README + CLAUDE,
write code/CLAUDE.md and code/README.md, update reach
README + WALKTHROUGH file paths, journal preamble note
that pre-port entries reference MATLAB paths.
Why now: prompt-neutron stiffness in nonlinear reach made it clear we
need TMJets, which is Julia. Already had the Julia plant model
working and matching MATLAB. Two languages = two sources of truth =
two places to drift. One language, one truth.
Manifest.toml gitignored. .mat results gitignored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First working nonlinear reach artifact for the PWR model. TMJets
Taylor-model scheme on the full 10-state closed-loop (unsaturated
ctrl_heatup, ramp reference via augmented time state x[11]).
Status:
T=10s : SUCCESS. 10583 reach-sets. T_c envelope [274.45, 295] C,
n envelope [-5.2e-4, 5.01e-3]. Over-approximation visible
(n can't be negative physically) but tube is sound and
bounded.
T=60s+ : FAILED. Exhausts 50k step budget then hits NaN in
precursor-decay term.
Root cause: prompt-neutron stiffness. Lambda=1e-4s forces TMJets'
adaptive stepper to ~1ms steps to resolve fast dynamics. 10583 steps
for 10s of sim time means we get ~10s/50000 = 2s horizon max before
step budget exhausts — inadequate for heatup's 5-hour obligation.
Remedy (next session): singular-perturbation reduction of the
neutronics. Treat n as quasi-static algebraic function of (T, C, rho)
rather than a dynamic state. Replaces stiff dn/dt with algebraic
relation, removes fast timescale from reach problem. Standard in
reactor-kinetics reach literature.
What this does prove:
- Julia/TMJets framework works for this system (previous
scaling-issue failure is gone with @taylorize'd RHS).
- Bilinear n*rho term handled correctly by Taylor models.
- Ramp reference via augmented time state x[11] is a workable
pattern for time-varying controller references in reach.
What this does NOT prove:
- Anything about heatup safety — 10s horizon is nowhere near the
mode's 5-hour obligation.
Includes sim_heatup.jl, a Rodas5 baseline using the same @taylorize-
able RHS form, for cross-validation of the reach tube against a
nominal trajectory once longer horizons are reachable.
WALKTHROUGH.md updated with the finding.
Hacker-Split: got partway up the Julia reach ladder, identified the
physical bottleneck (stiffness), named the fix (reduced-order PKE).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds mode_boundaries to predicates.json: per-DRC-mode X_entry, X_safe,
X_exit, T_max/T_min with the equilibrium-vs-transition taxonomy the
user articulated during walkthrough. T_max values are engineering-
reasonable guesses (5 hr heatup, 60 s scram); T_min = 7714 s for
heatup is physical floor from 28 C/hr rate limit over 60 F span.
WALKTHROUGH.md is a standalone document — read it cold without needing
the transcript. Covers:
- Per-mode reach-obligation taxonomy (eq. vs trans.)
- Formal reach-avoid claim per mode
- Mode boundary concretizations (X_entry/X_safe/X_exit/T_max)
- File-by-file code walkthrough of every reach artifact
- Results: operation reach passes all 6 inv2 halfspaces; Lyapunov
barrier fails all 6 (fundamental anisotropy limitation, quantified
via the OL/CL comparison)
- Caveats: soundness, alpha drift, saturation, DNBR, cold-shutdown
- Next: nonlinear reach via JuliaReach TMJets
This is the 'prelim example' doc; thesis defense will need real tech-
spec numbers replacing the placeholders.
Hacker-Split: user asked for standalone walkthrough capturing the
analysis step-by-step with figures embedded. This is that.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
