/* gas-model.c */ /* gas compressibility model */ #include #include #include "dive.h" /* * This gives an interative solution of hte Redlich-Kwong equation for the compressibility factor * according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlich–Kwong_equation_of_state * in terms of the reduced temperature T/T_crit and pressure p/p_crit. * * Iterate this three times for good results in our pressur range. * */ static double redlich_kwong_equation(double t_red, double p_red, double z_init) { return (1.0/(1.0 - 0.08664*p_red/(t_red * z_init)) - 0.42748/(sqrt(t_red * t_red * t_red) * ((t_red*z_init/p_red + 0.08664)))); } /* * At high pressures air becomes less compressible, and * does not follow the ideal gas law any more. */ #define STANDARD_TEMPERATURE 293.0 static double redlich_kwong_compressibility_factor(struct gasmix *gas, double bar) { /* Critical points according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_point_(thermodynamics) */ double tcn2 = 126.2; double tco2 = 154.6; double tche = 5.19; double pcn2 = 33.9; double pco2 = 50.5; double pche = 2.27; double tc, pc; tc = (tco2 * get_o2(gas) + tche * get_he(gas) + tcn2 * (1000 - get_o2(gas) - get_he(gas))) / 1000.0; pc = (pco2 * get_o2(gas) + pche * get_he(gas) + pcn2 * (1000 - get_o2(gas) - get_he(gas))) / 1000.0; return (redlich_kwong_equation(STANDARD_TEMPERATURE/tc, bar/pc, redlich_kwong_equation(STANDARD_TEMPERATURE/tc, bar/pc, redlich_kwong_equation(STANDARD_TEMPERATURE/tc, bar/pc,1.0)))); } /* * This is a quintic formula by Lubomir I. Ivanov that has * been optimized for the least-square error to the air * compressibility factor table (at 300K) taken from Wikipedia: * * bar z_factor * --- ------ * 1: 0.9999 * 5: 0.9987 * 10: 0.9974 * 20: 0.9950 * 40: 0.9917 * 60: 0.9901 * 80: 0.9903 * 100: 0.9930 * 150: 1.0074 * 200: 1.0326 * 250: 1.0669 * 300: 1.1089 * 400: 1.2073 * 500: 1.3163 */ static double air_compressibility_factor(double bar) { double x0 = 1.0, x1 = bar, x2 = x1*x1, x3 = x2*x1, x4 = x2*x2, x5 = x2*x3; return + x0 * 1.0002556612420115 - x1 * 0.0003115084635183305 + x2 * 0.00000227808965401253 + x3 * 1.91596422989e-9 - x4 * 8.78421542e-12 + x5 * 6.77746e-15; } /* * We end up using specialized functions for known gases, because * we have special tables for them. * * For now, let's do just air. * * We have other tables for other gases, see for example: * * http://ww.baue.org/library/zfactor_table.php * * and then we have the Redlich-Kwong function, but that seems * to be almost too generic, and not specific enough to the very * particular pressure and temperature ranges we care about.. */ double gas_compressibility_factor(struct gasmix *gas, double bar) { #if 1 return air_compressibility_factor(bar); #else /* Fall back on generic function */ return redlich_kwong_compressibility_factor(gas, bar); #endif }