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Thermodynamics I Interactive Simulations

Simulations whose names are in blue will play in most browsers, but most were programmed in Mathematica, and the CDF versions, which can be downloaded, are significantly faster and can be used offline with the Wolfram CDF plug-in. The QUIZ simulations follow a step-by-step procedure that requires user input. Most simulations are also available at Wolfram Demonstration Project. Contact us at learncheme@gmail.com with questions or suggestions.

Energy Balances and Entropy

Throttling High-Pressure Water	Energy Balance on Pressurizing a Tank	Evaporative Cooling of Water	Reversible and Irreversible Expansion or Compression Work	Temperature Changes in an Ideal Gas
Entropy Changes in Mixing Ideal Gases	Compressed-Gas Spray	Compare Compressors or Turbines with Different Efficiencies	Compressible Flow through a Nozzle/Diffuser	Adiabatic Compression of Pure Gases Prepared by H. Binous, N. A. Al-Baghli, and B. G. Higgins
Joule-Thomson Expansion	Material and Energy Balances in a Reactor with Heat Exchange	Arranging Balls into Boxes Prepared by M. Brodie	Adiabatic Evaporation of Water into Vacuum	Adiabatic Gas Expansion between Two Tanks
Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube	PhET Simulation: Gas Properties PhET Interactive Simulations University of Colorado Boulder	Irreversible and Reversible Temperature Equilibrium Prepared by T. Hogg	Identify Reversible and Irreversible Expansion and Compression Processes

Cycles

Rankine Cycle

Ordinary Vapor Compression (OVC) Cycle for Refrigerant R-134a

Carnot Cycles with Irreversible Heat Transfer

Refrigeration Cycle Coefficient of Performance
Prepared by M. D. Normand and M. Peleg

Otto Cycle
Prepared by H. Binous, B.G. Higgins, N. Faqir, and A. Bellagi

Phase Equilibrium in a Pure Fluid/Phase Diagrams

Phase Behavior on a Pressure-Volume Diagram	Single-Component P-V and T-V Diagrams	Circumnavigating the Critical Point	Injecting a Liquid into an Evacuated Tank	Reading a Psychrometric Chart
Pressure-Enthalpy Diagram for Water	Temperature-Entropy Diagram for Water	Adiabatic Compression of Water in VLE	Compressibility Factor Charts	Enthalpy-Entropy Diagram for Water
P-V Diagram for Heating a Vapor-Liquid Mixture at Constant Volume	Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram for Water	Compare Clausius-Clapeyron and Antoine Equations	Heating Water in a Closed Vessel Prepared by H. Binous, I. Boukholda, and A. Bellagi	Fluids in the Critical Region Prepared by S.M. Blinder

Fugacity and Departure Functions

Fugacity from Equation of State for Water

Enthalpy and Entropy Departure Functions for Gases

Chemical Potential Dependence
on Temperature & Pressure

Other
Simulation of a Simple Gas Pressure Model Prepared by J. McLoone	PhET Simulation: Atomic Interactions PhET Interactive Simulations University of Colorado Boulder	PhET Simulation: States of Matter PhET Interactive Simulations University of Colorado Boulder