Brayton Cycle (brayton-cycle) is a piece of software written for the IC 142 Engineering Thermodynamics course. It simulates a gas turbine for different turbine inlet temperatures with compressor ratio varying from 14 to 34.
To use this software, first clone the repo and go into the directory:
git clone https://github.com/FanaticalFighter/brayton-cycle.git
cd brayton-cycle
Then, compile the software. You'll need the standard gcc compiler and make. If you're running any modern Unix based operating system, this should either come preinstalled or be quite easy to install. Here's how to compile the project:
make
Now, to run the software, you simply execute the created executable. On Unix or Unix like systems:
./brayton-cycle
If you want to see detailed per stage energy and exergy statistics, please run the above with the -v option.
You can run make clean to clean your directory of the executable. The executable will generate a file data that holds the simulation data for the plot.
To actually generate the plot, you'll need to run the supplied python script. To run this script, you'll need matplotlib, the python package, installed. You can see how to install that here. To run this script and generate the plot, run the following command:
python plot.py