.ExternalMedia.UserGuide.Overview

Information

The ExternalMedia library provides a framework for interfacing external codes computing fluid properties to Modelica.Media-compatible component models. The library has been designed with two main goals: maximizing the efficiency of the code, while minimizing the amount of extra code required to interface existing external codes to the library.

The library provides medium packages covering pure fluids models, possibly two-phase, which are 100% compatible with the Modelica.Media.Interfaces.PartialTwoPhaseMedium interface.

Two external sofwares for fluid property computation are currently suppored by the ExternalMedia library:

• FluidProp, formerly developed at TU Delft and currently devloped and maintained by Asimptote
• CoolProp, developed at the University of Liege and at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

The library has been tested successfully with Dymola 2022 and OpenModelica 1.20.0, both under Windows and Linux.

Please report any issue on the library GitHub issue tracker.