Proektsoftbg / Calcpad

Free and open source software for mathematical and engineering calculations.
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Coolprop functionality #183

Open Itenium opened 1 year ago

Itenium commented 1 year ago

Good day.

In Mechanical engineering, one often uses the Thermophysical properties of various fluids.

Coolprop is an open-source C++ library that can determine various values from the inputs.

For more information please go to: http://www.coolprop.org/

It would be great if this functionality could be added to Calcpad.

Proektsoftbg commented 1 year ago

Hi!

Thank you for sharing that. This lib looks very complete and mature at a glance. But for me is like a Chinese. :) I can barely get a few things from what I can remember from my physics classes at school.

What I can do is to help with the programming, if someone who is a specialist like you wants to contribute. Maybe it will be much easier to allow Calcpad to execute external C/C++ functions from inside a worksheet. I can load the C/C++ code, pass it to the C/C++ compiler, together with the Calcpad variables, execute it, and return the result back to Calcpad.

Then, anyone will be able to use such libraries with Calcpad straight away like they are.