Welcome to Fluids’s documentation!¶

Fluids is open-source software for engineers and technicians working in the fields of chemical, mechanical, or civil engineering. It includes modules for piping, fittings, pumps, tanks, compressible flow, open-channel flow, atmospheric properties, solar properties, particle size distributions, two phase flow, friction factors, control valves, orifice plates and other flow meters, ejectors, relief valves, and more.

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Installation¶ Get the latest version of fluids from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fluids/ If you have an installation of Python with pip, simple install it with: $ pip install fluids Alternatively, if you are using conda as your package management, you can simply install fluids in your environment from conda-forge channel with: $ conda install -c conda-forge fluids To get the git version, run: $ git clone git://github.com/CalebBell/fluids.git

Latest source code¶ The latest development version of fluids’s sources can be obtained at https://github.com/CalebBell/fluids

Bug reports¶ To report bugs, please use the fluids’s Bug Tracker at: https://github.com/CalebBell/fluids/issues If you have further questions about the usage of the library, feel free to contact the author at Caleb.Andrew.Bell@gmail.com.

License information¶ Fluids is MIT licensed. See LICENSE.txt for full information on the terms & conditions for usage of this software, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. Although not required by the fluids license, if it is convenient for you, please cite fluids if used in your work. Please also consider contributing any changes you make back, such that they may be incorporated into the main library and all of us will benefit from them.