MIT-LAE · ngomezve · Jun 20, 2025 · Jul 17, 2025 · Jul 18, 2025 · Jul 24, 2025
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 docs/build/*
 *.code-workspace
 .VSCodeCounter/*
-*png
+*png
+*json
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ authors = ["Prashanth Prakash <prash@mit.edu> and contributors"]
 version = "1.0.0"
 
 [deps]
+ForwardDiff = "f6369f11-7733-5829-9624-2563aa707210"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
 StaticArrays = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ This package is primarily intended for use in gas turbine cycle calculations wit
 
 This package also introduces a method for fast calculations of thermodynamic properties of mixtures with fixed composition by calculating an equivalent polynomial representation of the mixture. See docs for theory and performance details. 
 
- 
+This package uses parametric typing to make it compatible with automatic forward-mode differentiation.
diff --git a/docs/src/gas.md b/docs/src/gas.md
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ information about the gas mixture.
 ```@docs
 Gas
 Gas()
-Base.setproperty!(gas::Gas, sym::Symbol, val::Float64)
 ```
 
 ## Single component gases

diff --git a/docs/src/index.md b/docs/src/index.md
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ of the gas/mixture is only a function of its temperature, i.e., $c_p(T)$ ,
 $h(T)$, and $s(T,p)$ (note the entropy is a function of both pressure and temperature).
 
 One of the important features of `IdealGasThermo.jl` is the ability to represent
-a mixture of gases as a single [`composite_species`](@ref vitiated).
-
+a mixture of gases as a single [`composite_species`](@ref vitiated). This package uses parametric typing to make it compatible with forward-mode automatic differentiation.
 
 ## Getting started
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		This package also introduces a method for fast calculations of thermodynamic properties of mixtures with fixed composition by calculating an equivalent polynomial representation of the mixture. See docs for theory and performance details.


		This package uses parametric typing to make it compatible with automatic forward-mode differentiation.
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     ```@docs
     Gas
     Gas()
-    Base.setproperty!(gas::Gas, sym::Symbol, val::Float64)
     ```
     ## Single component gases
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