WATER95-A MATLAB® implementation of the IAPWS-95 standard for use in thermodynamics lectures

• Autores: P. Junglas
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 25, no. 1, 2009, págs. 3-10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • WATER95 is an open source implementation of IAPWS95, the current standard formulation of the properties of water and steam forscientific use. It is written in MATLAB and is aimed primarily at educational use. Its value for teaching standard processes with wateras a working medium is shown on the basis of worked exercises. They provide examples of isobaric and adiabatic processes and thecalculation of the efficiency of the standard Clausius±Rankine cycle for steam turbines, and show how to extend the package for thecomputation of processes of constant enthalpy. Finally the advantages and drawbacks of using the package in a thermodynamics courseare discussed.