Java IF97

IAPWS-IF97 is the Industrial Formulation by The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (www.iapws.org). This implementation is according Wagner, Wolfgang & Kretzschmar, Hans-Joachim, 2008, International Steam Tables — Properties of Water and Steam Based on the Industrial Formulation IAPWS-IF97, 2^nd Edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-21419-9.

This library is made available to the public domain, under GNU Lesser General Public License. That is, free for any product to use and redistribute. This library can also be included in proprietary software.

IF97 project binaries and source code are hosted on SourceForge: sourceforge.net/projects/if97 as well as compiled sources and API documentation (javadoc).

Our IF97 library is developed in Java, with a test suite containing a mere 100 tests readily available in the source distribution.

IF97 artefacts are also available in the Maven Central Repository and can be added to your Maven project dependencies section:

<dependency>
<groupId>com.hummeling</groupId>
<artifactId>if97</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>

This library has no dependencies on other software libraries, except for the test classes which require JUnit.

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Available Properties

Below table shows which properties are available as a function of the two arguments shown in brackets above the columns. Refractive index requires the wavelength of light as an additional third argument. Some properties only require one argument and are denoted as ✓sat., e.g. saturated pressure as a function of temperature only.

		(p, T)	(p, h)	(p, s)	(h, s)	(T, s)	(ρ, T)	(p, x?)	(T, x?)
absolute pressure	p				✓				✓sat.
density	ρ	✓	✓	✓	✓			✓	✓
dielectric constant	ε	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
dynamic viscosity	η	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
isobaric cubic expansion coefficient	α_v	✓	✓	✓	✓
isothermal compressibility	κ_T	✓	✓	✓	✓
kinematic viscosity	ν	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
Prandtl number	Pr	✓	✓	✓	✓
refractive index	n	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
specific enthalpy	h	✓		✓				✓	✓
specific entropy	s	✓	✓					✓	✓
specific Gibbs free energy	g	✓
specific internal energy	u	✓	✓	✓	✓
specific isobaric heat capacity	c_p	✓	✓	✓	✓
specific isochoric heat capacity	c_v	✓	✓	✓	✓
specific volume	v	✓	✓	✓	✓			✓	✓
speed of sound	w	✓	✓	✓	✓
surface tension	σ							✓	✓
temperature	T		✓	✓	✓			✓sat.
thermal conductivity	λ	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
thermal diffusivity	κ	✓	✓	✓	✓
vapour fraction	x		✓	✓	✓	✓
partial derivative	(^∂z/_∂x)_y	✓					✓

Partial derivatives can be specified using the com.hummeling.if97.IF97.Quantity enumeration. For example, the partial derivative of pressure with respect to enthalpy for constant temperature is retrieved as follows:

double dp_dh = if97.partialDerivativePT(3, 300, IF97.Quantity.h, IF97.Quantity.T, IF97.Quantity.p);

Note that partial derivatives are returned in the DEFAULT unit system, so (^∂p/_∂h)_T would be in MPa·kg/kJ.

Using IF97 in Java

Add IF97 to the imports: import com.hummeling.if97.IF97;
Create an IF97 object: IF97 if97 = new IF97(IF97.UnitSystem.ENGINEERING);
Retrieve a property: double v = if97.specificVolumePT(3, 300);

When arguments are out-of-range, an com.hummeling.if97.OutOfRangeException is thrown, which states the exceeded limit. This class contains methods that return the limit, double getLimit(), the quantity, String getQuantity(), and the exceeding value, double getValue().

Unit systems

Use IF97.UnitSystem enumeration to select a unit system:

DEFAULT Units as used in above mentioned reference Wagner&Kretzschmar.
ENGINEERING Units as commonly used in (process) engineering practice.
SI International system of units.
IMPERIAL British Imperial system of units.

		DEFAULT	ENGINEERING	SI	IMPERIAL
absolute pressure	p	MPa	bar	Pa	psi
density	ρ	kg/m³	kg/m³	kg/m³	lb/ft³
dielectric constant	ε	-	-	-	-
dynamic viscosity	η	Pa·s	Pa·s	Pa·s	cP
isobaric cubic expansion coefficient	α_v	1/K	1/K	1/K	1/R
isothermal compressibility	κ_T	1/MPa	1/MPa	1/Pa	in²/lb
kinematic viscosity	ν	m²/s	m²/s	m²/s	cSt
Prandtl number	Pr	-	-	-	-
refractive index	n	-	-	-	-
specific enthalpy	h	kJ/kg	kJ/kg	J/kg	BTU/lb
specific entropy	s	kJ/(kg·K)	kJ/(kg·K)	J/(kg·K)	BTU/(lb·R)
specific Gibbs free energy	g	kJ/kg	kJ/kg	J/kg	BTU/lb
specific internal energy	u	kJ/kg	kJ/kg	J/kg	BTU/lb
specific isobaric heat capacity	c_p	kJ/(kg·K)	kJ/(kg·K)	J/(kg·K)	BTU/(lb·R)
specific isochoric heat capacity	c_v	kJ/(kg·K)	kJ/(kg·K)	J/(kg·K)	BTU/(lb·R)
specific volume	v	m³/kg	m³/kg	m³/kg	ft³/lb
speed of sound	w	m/s	m/s	m/s	ft/s
surface tension	σ	N/m	N/m	N/m	lbf/ft
temperature	T	K	°C	K	°F
thermal conductivity	λ	W/(m·K)	kW/(m·K)	W/(m·K)	BTU/(hr·ft·R)
thermal diffusivity	κ	m²/s	m²/s	m²/s	cSt
vapour fraction	x	-	-	-	-
wavelength of light	λ_L	μm	μm	m	in

Note that partial derivatives are returned in the DEFAULT unit system, so (^∂p/_∂h)_T would be in MPa·kg/kJ.

Accessing IF97 from MATLAB

Our IF97 library can be accessed easily from within MATLAB since Java is standard shipped with MATLAB. First add IF97.jar to MATLAB's dynamic class path
>> javaaddpath path_to_IF97.jar

Select your preferred unit system
>> unitSystem = javaMethod('valueOf', 'com.hummeling.if97.IF97$UnitSystem', 'ENGINEERING');

Create an instance of the IF97 class
>> if97 = com.hummeling.if97.IF97(unitSystem);

Retrieve a property, e.g., specific volume as a function of pressure and temperature as follows
>> if97.specificVolumePT(3, 300)

Alternatively, the Java archive can be added to MATLAB's static class path by editing your classpath.txt file, see your documentation for more details. Or you could add the javaaddpath statement to your MATLAB startup file, startup.m.

For a list of available methods issue the following command
>> methodsview(if97)

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