# 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, and more.

Module Contents:

- fluids tutorial
  - Importing
  - Design philosophy
  - Dimensionless numbers
  - Miscellaneous utilities
  - Friction factors
  - Pipe schedules
  - Wire gauges
  - Tank geometry
  - Miscellaneous geometry
  - Atmospheric properties
  - Compressor sizing
  - Gas pipeline sizing
  - Gas pipeline sizing: Empirical equations
  - Drag and terminal velocity
  - Pressure drop through packed beds
  - Pressure drop through piping
  - Control valve sizing: Introduction
  - Control valve sizing: Liquid flow
  - Control valve sizing: Gas flow
  - Electric motor sizing
  - Particle Size Distributions
- API Reference
  - Atmospheric properties (fluids.atmosphere)
  - Compressible flow and compressor sizing (fluids.compressible)
  - Control valve sizing and rating (fluids.control_valve)
  - Dimensionless numbers (fluids.core)
  - Drag and terminal velocity (fluids.drag)
  - Filter pressure drop (fluids.filters)
  - Fittings pressure drop (fluids.fittings)
  - Orifice plates, flow nozzles, Venturi tubes, cone and wedge meters (fluids.flow_meter)
  - Friction factor and pipe roughness (fluids.friction)
  - Tank and helical coil sizing (fluids.geometry)
  - Jet Pump (ejector/eductor) Sizing and Rating (fluids.jet_pump)
  - Mixing (fluids.mixing)
  - Hydrology, weirs and open flow (fluids.open_flow)
  - Packed bed pressure drop (fluids.packed_bed)
  - Packing & demister pressure drop (fluids.packed_tower)
  - Particle Size Distributions (fluids.particle_size_distribution)
  - Pipe schedules (fluids.piping)
  - Pump and motor sizing (fluids.pump)
  - Safety/relief valve sizing (fluids.safety_valve)
  - Liquid-Vapor Separators (fluids.separator)
  - Pneumatic conveying (fluids.saltation)
  - Two phase flow (fluids.two_phase)
  - Two-phase flow voidage (fluids.two_phase_voidage)
  - Support for pint Quantities (fluids.units)
  - Support for numpy arrays (fluids.vectorized)
- Solved fluids mechanics problems
  - 7.1 Smooth Pipe (Plastic)
  - 7.2 L, L over D and K from Kv for Conventional Type Valves
  - 7.3 L, L over D, K, and Kv for Conventional Type Valves
  - 7.4 Venturi Type Valves
  - 7.5 Lift Check Valves
  - 7.6 Reduced Port Ball Valve
  - 7.7 Laminar flow in Valves, Fittings, and Pipe - System from Example 7.6
  - 7.8 Laminar flow in Valves, Fittings, and Pipe - SAE oil through a pipe and globe valve
  - 7.10 Piping Systems - Steam
  - 7.11 Flat heating Coils - Water
  - 7.13 Flow given in English Units - Oil
  - 7.14 Bernoulli’s Theorem-Water
  - 7.29 Orifice Flow Rate Calculation

## 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.

## Citation

To cite fluids in publications use:

    Caleb Bell (2016-2018). fluids: Fluid dynamics component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)
    https://github.com/CalebBell/fluids.

# Indices and tables

- Index
- Module Index
- Search Page