Viscosity/Thermal Conductivity Water

[Jorge Yanez]

Hi,

I was wandering if thre is some module of cantera that calculate transport properties of liquids.

Can you give some information about it? or there is any document that explain it.

I prefer to use python.

Regards

[Bryan W. Weber]

Hello,

Cantera does have classes for liquid transport, but they are untested, have no examples, can only be used from C++, and are deprecated for removal pending the addition of tests and examples from possibly interested users. See the documentation here, here, and here. Separately, Cantera can compute transport properties for water, using the WaterTransport class, for which the documentation is here. This class implements equations from a paper by J. V. Sengers, J. T. R. Watson, "Improved International Formulations for the Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Water Substance", J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 15, 1291 (1986). A recent pull request added the ability to access this class from the Python interface. You'll have to compile Cantera yourself to use it, for which there are instructions here. Then, something like

w = ct.Water()
w.viscosity
w.thermal_conductivity

should work.

Best,

Bryan