Thermodynamics I Interactive Simulations
Our CDF simulations can be downloaded and used offline with the Wolfram CDF plug-in. They are also available on the Wolfram Demonstration Project website. Please contact us at learncheme@gmail.com if you identify problems with any of the simulations or if you have suggestions for simulations we might prepare.
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 Marc Brodie


Cycles

Rankine Cycle
Ordinary Vapor Compression (OVC) Cycle for Refrigerant R-134a
Carnot Cycles with Irreversible Heat Transfer

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
Fugacity and Departure Functions

Fugacity from Equation of State for Water
Fugacity as a Driving Force for Mass Transfer
Enthalpy and Entropy Departure Functions for Gases
Chemical Potential Dependence
on Temperature & Pressure
Other

Simulation of a Simple Gas Pressure Model
Prepared by John McLoone