IAPWS Industrial Formulation 1997

For background information about the IAPWS Industrial Formulation 1997 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS-IF97) and references see IAPWS-IF97 release .

The IAPWS-IF97 divides the thermodynamic surface into five regions (see figure below):

region 1 for the liquid state from low to high pressures,
region 2 for the vapor and ideal gas state,
region 3 for the thermodynamic state around the critical point,
region 4 for the saturation curve (vapor-liquid equilibrium),
region 5 for high temperatures above 1073.15 K (800 °C) and pressures up to 10 MPa (100 bar).

Properties of Water and Steam calculator

Program description

Program in Javascript is designed to provide a fremework for further development. Only properties from basic equations are covered for regions 1, 2 and 3. Backward equations are not implemented. For Region 3 density must be calculated from pressure with Newton iteration. All regions give correct verification results.

It seems that not all users realise the kind of software which is described here. When you calculate properties the program runs on your machine! Please use view Page source to review the source code or click this link for fancy listing. This is NOT external program calculator! That's why it is licensed by the following licence.

Licence

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License , or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The software is released under GNU General Public License.

Leon Kos
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Last modified: Mon Mar 14 14:26:22 CET 2005