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Old   May 11, 2001, 23:30
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Hi, everyone! IĄŻm modeling water-vapor flows through a converge-diverge nozzle using commercial code. For compressible flows, many commercial codes think the idea gas law is the appropriate density relationship. However, the water vapor IĄŻm using is 0.6Mpa, so in my opinion, it canĄŻt be thought as idea gas. Unfortunately, I couldnĄŻt find the UDF (User Defined Function) for density. Could anybody kind enough to give me some advices on how to set the physical properties. Anything about FLUENT, CFX, or ANSYS is welcome! All thanks given to you for your help!

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Old   May 17, 2001, 04:02
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For near 0.6Mpa, difference between real density(from steam table) and calculated density(from ideal gas law) is not so big. The difference becomes higher as temperature increases. However, near 1000Kelvin, the difference is about 3%. If you have another alternative for the exact density, I guess that ideal gas law is fairly good approach.

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Old   May 17, 2001, 06:04
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Thank you for your concern! But i wonder whether the ideal gas law still do when the pressure vary from 366.6Pa to 0.6MPa?
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Old   May 18, 2001, 04:14
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1. Please refer steam-table.

2. For every gas, its behavior is similar to ideal gas at low pressure region. The difference is, as I posted, about 3% at P=0.6Mpa. When pressure becomes lower, e.g., 366Pa. the difference between ideal gas law and actual value becomes small. So, I recommend that you use ideal gas law if you can accept maximum error of about 3%(when P=0.6Mpa).

3. Ideal gas law is fairly good alternative till P = 1 ~ 2Mpa for many kind of gases.

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