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Propane convergence close to critical point #684

Open thorade opened 4 days ago

thorade commented 4 days ago

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For pure fluid propane, I think I see convergence issues close to the critical point. In the GUI, select propane, then enter

  1. first row "crt"
  2. second row density 219V or density 219 and quality 1
  3. third row density 221L or density 221 and quality 0

Third row will give an error, but different one for the ways of specifying the same.

DLL version 10.0, even though I think I had a newer one in between.

ianhbell commented 3 days ago

Yeah, that's always tricky to do those calculations because the slope of the function to be solved goes infinite. The only super robust solution is to use the superancillary equations: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jpr/article/53/1/013102/3270194