Heatrapy: A flexible Python framework for computing dynamic heat transfer processes involving caloric effects in 1.5D systems
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TL;DR: A Python framework that makes the modeling of caloric systems such as magnetocaloric devices easy to be computed and can be used in a variety of problems, including electrocaloric, barocaloric and elastocaloric systems.
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About: This article is published in SoftwareX. The article was published on 01 Jan 2018. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Heat transfer.
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