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A Hypertext Guide to CyclePad

• Overview
• • How CyclePad Views Thermodynamic Cycles
  • A Guided Tour of CyclePad
• Build Mode
• • Creating a New Design
  • Adding Components to the Design
  • Connecting Components
  • Changing the Labels of Components and Stuffs
  • Manipulating Component Icons
  • Deleting Stuffs
• Analyze Mode
• • Meters
  • Meter Color Coding
  • Interacting with Meters - Choosing a Substance
  • Interacting with Meters - Making Modeling Assumptions
  • Interacting with Meters - Assuming a Numeric Value
  • Interacting with Meters - Derived Values
• Contradiction Mode
• • What Causes Contradictions?
  • How Does CyclePad Detect Contradictions?
  • How Do I Get Out of Contradiction Mode?
• Investigating a Cycle via the Explanation System
• • A Summary of Explanation System Question Types
• Investigating a Cycle via the Sensitivity Analysis Tool
• CyclePad Command Reference
• • File
  • Add Component
  • Library
  • Mode
  • Tools
  • Windows
  • Preferences
  • Help
• CyclePad's Knowledge Base
• • Components
  • • Turbine
    • Compressor
    • Pump
    • Heater
    • Cooler
    • Heat Exchanger
    • Throttle
    • Splitter
    • Mixer
  • Processes
  • Stuff
  • Modeling Assumptions
• Diagrams of Library Examples of Cycles
• • Simple Steam Rankine Cycle
  • Simple Refrigerator Cycle
  • Basic Gas Turbine Cycle
  • Steam Cycle with Reheat
  • Combined Gas Turbine & Rankine Cycle
• Basic Engineering Thermodynamics

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