Requirements Baseline

The Requirements Baseline (RB) expresses the user requirements for the software.

The largest input to the process, representing UKAEA Tokamak Science Department appears under Technical Specification Section 4, so that it may be accompanied by a detailed response. Instead, there is presented an appreciation of the properties of the plasma edge in Section 3.1.

The Departmental input, although it deals with other aspects of the specification, focusses more on the physical processes to be modelled and the approaches likely to be required. The following Section 3.2 records interactions with UKAEA Engineers, although a subsequent meeting clarified that the main demand for NEPTUNE at that time was that it be a modular, component-based design, equally suitable for integration into ANSYS OptisLang\(^{TM}\) as VECMAtk (with more detailed requirements likely to follow when the software became more developed). Thereafter the next Section 3.3 contains use cases, followed by Section 3.4 describing general requirements deducible from the use cases.