Yamdb: easily accessible thermophysical properties of liquid metals and molten salts

TL;DR

Yamdb is a user-friendly database providing thermophysical properties of liquid metals and molten salts, storing mathematical relations and coefficients separately for easy implementation across programming languages.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach of separating equations and coefficients in a database, enhancing accessibility and usability for researchers and engineers.

Findings

Equations and coefficients are stored separately for flexibility.

Supports implementation in multiple programming languages.

Includes comprehensive metadata like source and temperature range.

Abstract

Yamdb (Yet another materials data base) addresses the need to provide thermophysical properties of liquid metals and molten salts in an easily accessible manner. Mathematical relations describing material properties - usually determined by experiment - are taken from the literature. Equations and their coefficients are stored separately. The former can be implemented in any programming language (Python and Go in this case) and the latter are kept in YAML files together with additional information (source, temperature range, composition, accuracy if available, etc).