Liquid Rocket Engine Cooling Simulation

NASA CEA

The implemented class calls NASA CEA via RocketCEA.

Setup WSL
- download and install Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/wsl
Setup visual output on WSL
- download and install xming https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
- Do the following in Ubuntu terminal
  - nano ~/.bashrc
  - # add the following line to the end of that file
  - export DISPLAY=:0
  - # to exit Ctrl-X, and save file
Setup miniconda as a python 3.x distro and a package manager
- Do the following in Ubuntu terminal
  - sudo apt install wget
  - cd
  - wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
  - install from command line
- make sure to know how to open “base” conda virtual environment
- conda activate base
Setup dependencies
- sudo pip install numpy
- sudo pip install matplotlib
- sudo apt install gfortran
- sudo pip install rocketcea
Test installation
- Do the following in Ubuntu terminal
  - python -c "from rocketcea.cea_obj import CEA_Obj; C=CEA_Obj(oxName='LOX', fuelName='LH2'); print(C.get_Isp())"
- Expected ouput
  - 374.30361765576265

you can access all your windows files by doing:
- cd /mnt/c/
If the above does not work then try the following
- you can use a symbolic link, for info about this look at point “5. Create a link from your WSL to your C drive” in the following link
  https://janelbrandon.medium.com/a-guide-for-using-wsl-for-development-d135670313a6