CycleDesign:

Path: Thermal/Brayton

% Brayton cycle design from temperature, pressure and efficiencies
 If there are no outputs or doPlot is true this will create figures.
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 Form:
 [dOut,dP] = CycleDesign(fXe,heat,t1,t4,p1,a,r,n,pR,nC,nT,nR,doPlot)
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   Inputs
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   fXe     (1,1) Mass fraction of Xenon in Xe/He mixture
   heat    (1,1) Heat input (kW)
   T1      (1,1) Compressor Inlet Temp temperature (deg-K)
   T4      (1,1) Turbine Inlet temperature (deg-K) 
   P1      (1,1) Compressor Inlet Pressure (Atm)
   a       (1,1) total pipe area, m^2
   r       (1,1) pipe radius
   n       (1,1) number of pipes
   pR      (1,1) Pressure ratio of compressor
   nC      (1,1) Compressor efficiency
   nT      (1,1) Turbine efficiency
   nR      (1,1) Recuperator ratio
   doPlot  (1,1) Create plots (with output)

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   Outputs
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   dOut    (.)   Output
   dP      (1,1) Pressure drop of P2

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 See also HeatTransferCoeffTaylor, HeXeMixture, BraytonWithRecuperator
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Children:

Thermal: Brayton/BraytonWithRecuperator
Thermal: HeatExchanger/HeatTransferCoeffTaylor
Thermal: ThermalProperties/HeXeMixture

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