What are the primary sources of the fluid and solid material properties used in Flownex? Users may want to understand the origin of the thermophysical property data used for fluid flow and heat transfer calculations.
The fluid properties used in Flownex are primarily obtained from the http://www.nist.gov./National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) database. For two-phase water and steam properties, the underlying steam tables used by NIST are based on the standards developed by the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS).
The solid material properties used in Flownex are primarily based on data published in Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer by Incropera and DeWitt, a widely used reference in the field of heat transfer and thermodynamics.