ThermalNetwork 0.2.3

A thermal network solver for GHE sizing.

ThermalNetwork

A library for sizing multiple ground heat exchangers distributed around a single-pipe thermal network.

Installation

pip install ThermalNetwork

Usage

This package has a command-line interface, intended to be used via URBANopt. To access the CLI directly, after installing call thermalnetwork --help for all the commands.

Developer installation

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/NREL/ThermalNetwork.git
• Change directories into the repository: cd ThermalNetwork
• We recommend using virtual environments on principle to avoid dependencies colliding between your Python projects. venv is the Python native solution that will work everywhere, though other options may be more user-friendly.
  • Some popular alternatives are:
    • pyenv and the virtualenv plugin work together nicely for Linux/Mac machines
    • virtualenv
    • miniconda

Once you have set up your environment:

• Update pip and setuptools: pip install -U pip setuptools
• Install the respository with developer dependencies: pip install -e .[dev]
• Activate pre-commit (only once, after making a new venv): pre-commit install
  • Runs automatically on your staged changes before every commit
• To check the whole repo, run pre-commit run --all-files
  • Settings and documentation links for pre-commit and ruff are in .pre-commit-config.yaml and pyproject.toml
  • Pre-commit will run automatically during CI, linting and formatting the entire repository.

Testing

Once you are set up as a developer, run pytest from the root dir. Increase verbosity with -v and -vv.

Test coverage will be reported to stdout.

Test files are in thermalnetwork/tests/

Test output will be written to thermalnetwork/tests/test_output/

Releasing

Increment the version in thermalnetwork/__init__.py. Use semantic versioning. When a new release from the main branch is made in GitHub, a workflow automatically releases to PyPI.