kilojoule 0.4.1

A convenience package for engineering calculations with a focus on fluids mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer

kilojoule

Convenience functions for solving thermodynamic and heat transfer problems

Installation

pip install kilojoule

Description

kilojoule is a Python module/package to provide convenience functions for performing thermodynamic and heat transfer calculations. The primary use case for these functions is in scripts written to solve specific problems. To that end, simplicity of syntax for variables and readability of output are prioritized over speed. Wrapper functions are provided to pull thermodynamic properties from multiple sources (CoolProp for real fluids and PYroMat for ideal gases) using a consistent syntax regardless of the source and including units (supplied by the Pint library) as an integral part of all calculations.
Variable names are chosen to be consistent with those commonly used in the mechanical engineering texts.

The GitHub: kilojoule-notebooks repository contains Jupyter notebooks with detailed installation and usage instructions along with example notebooks.