ALR recommends the use of the following software and packages: GasTurb, gas turbine performance software, GasTurb GmbH www.gasturb.com Propulsion and Power – An Exploration of Gas Turbine Performance Modeling. J. Kurzke and I. Halliwell. Springer. Python, Python Software Foundation, https://www.python.org/ Fernando Pérez, Brian E. Granger, IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing, Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 21-29, May/June 2007, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2007.53. URL: http://ipython.org Jones E, Oliphant E, Peterson P, et al. SciPy: Open Source Scientific Tools for Python, 2001-, http://www.scipy.org/ [Online; accessed 2016-09-07]. John D. Hunter. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment, Computing in Science & Engineering, 9, 90-95 (2007), DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2007.55, www.matplotlib.org Stéfan van der Walt, S. Chris Colbert and Gaël Varoquaux. The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation, Computing in Science & Engineering, 13, 22-30 (2011), http://www.numpy.org/ GIT, free and open source distributed version control system, www.git-scm.com Anaconda, A Python distribution that is pre-built for windows and includes common modules such as numpy, scipy and matplotlib, https://www.continuum.io/downloads