lbh15 1.1.0

Python implementation of liquid metal properties from Handbook on Lead-bismuth Eutectic Alloy and Lead Properties, Materials Compatibility, Thermal-hydraulics and Technologies

Author:

Daniele Panico, Daniele Tomatis

Date:

01/10/2023

Introduction

lbh15 (Lead Bismuth Handbook 2015) is a Python package that implements the thermo-physical properties of lead, bismuth and lead-bismuth eutectic (lbe) metal alloy available from the handbook edited by OECD/NEA

lbh15 is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License 3.

Project Structure

The project is organized according to the following folder structure:

<lbh15 parent folder>
  ├── docs/
  ├── lbh15/
  ├── tests/
  ├── LICENSE
  ├── MANIFEST.in
  ├── README.rst
  └── setup.py

• lbh15: contains all modules, classes and methods implemented in lbh15

• docs: contains materials for the generation of the documentation by Sphinx

• tests: collection of tests used to verify the correct implementation

Dependencies

• Python >=3.8.10

• Sphinx >=5.1.0

• SciPy >=1.8.1

• NumPy >=1.22.3

Installation

To install the package lbh15, type please the following command:

pip install lbh15

Or use https://github.com/newcleo-dev-team/lbh15.git to clone the package. After cloning the package, execute the following command inside the base folder:

pip install .

Documentation

The Sphinx documentation can be built in html and latex by executing the following command in the folder docs/:

make html

make latex
cd _build/latex
latexmk -pdf -f

The html documentation is available on GitHub Pages at newcleo-dev-team.github.io/lbh15.