FATE™ (Facility Flow, Aerosol, Thermal, and Explosion) is a flexible, fast-running code developed and maintained by Fauske and Associates under ASME NQA-1 compliant QA program.
FATE™ is a versatile software, and has capabilities to model heat and mass transfer, fluid behavior, and aerosol behavior in a variety of applications as applicable to nuclear, chemical and hydrocarbon and manufacturing industries.
FATE™'s phenomenological capabilities include:
- Multiple-compartment representation, either well-mixed or stratified
- Generalized chemical species via property correlations
- Arbitrary flow path network
- Pressure-driven, counter-current, and diffusion gas flows
- Transport of gases and aerosols between compartments
- Vapor-aerosol equilibrium
- Entrainment of aerosol from liquid and deposited particulate
- Deposition of aerosols via gravitational sedimentation, impaction, and so on
- Combustion, and detonation
- Heat transfer and condensation on structures
- Multidimensional heat conduction in structures
- Heat and mass transfer between liquid pools and gas space and submerged structures
- Special-purpose models for oxidation and Wigner energy release from graphite
- Special-purpose models for processing of uranium metal fuel and fuel sludge
FATE™ allows users to produce models of common components such as heat exchangers, pumps, fans, filter trains, valves, dampers, blow-out panels, downcomer vents and rupture disks. Additionally, operator actions and equipment trip- and setpoints can be modeled with relative ease.
Typical outputs provided by FATE™ include:
- Gas temperature
- Pressure
- Liquid temperature
- Liquid elevation
- Mass of liquid
- Thermophysical properties
- Gas composition in terms of mole fractions
- Gas composition in terms of masses
- Relative humidity of each region
- Aerosol masses
- Rates-of-change of gas and aerosol