Use when you must analyze a gas turbine cycle with intercooling: split the total pressure ratio into two compression stages with an intercooler between them, compute the intercooler exit temperature from the stage pressure ratio and effectiveness, determine the optimum intercooler pressure ratio minimizing total compressor work, and quantify net specific work and thermal efficiency against the simple non-intercooled cycle. Produces the intercooled cycle efficiency, the simple cycle baseline efficiency, the optimum intercooler pressure ratio, the specific work gain, and the station temperatures that gate an engine cycle comparison. Trigger: intercooled cycle, two-stage com…
