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Thermodynamics I Interactive Simulations

Our interactive Mathematica simulations can be viewed using Opera and Mozilla Firefox browsers with the free Wolfram CDF plug-in. They can be downloaded and used offline with the Wolfram CDF plug-in. They are also available on the Wolfram Demonstration Project website. Most simulations have accompanying screencasts showing how to use them. 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

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