ThermalNetwork 0.2.3rc1

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

• As general guidance, we recommend using virtual environments to avoid dependencies colliding between your Python projects. [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) is the Python native solution that will work everywhere, though other options may be more user-friendly.

  • Some popular alternatives are:

    • [pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv) and [the virtualenv plugin](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv) work together nicely for Linux/Mac machines

    • [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/)

    • [miniconda](https://docs.conda.io/projects/miniconda/en/latest/)

  • Activate pre-commit (only once, after making a new venv): pre-commit install

  • Runs automatically on your staged changes before every commit

• Update pip and setuptools: pip install -U pip setuptools

• Install the respository with developer dependencies: pip install -e .[dev]

• 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

# Testing

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

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](https://semver.org/). When a new release is made in GitHub, a [workflow](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pypi-publish) automatically releases to PyPI.