A Guide to the Use of Steve McClains Thermodynamic

Property Functions for Air

In order to use the functions, you must download the Mathcad file named
IGASPropsRevised.xmcd
and save it on your hard drive. That file is availale for download from the course !e
site.
In order to use the functions in your wor"sheet, you must insert a reference to the aove
wor"sheet. In a Mathcad wor"sheet, clic" the Insert menu. #ear the ottom clic"
Reference. $lic" %rowse and rowse to IGAS PropsRevised.xmcd and select it.
Pay very close attention to the syntax of these functions. $apitali&ation and suscriptin'
are critical. The standard syntax is(
a)cair*,c+
where a is the output variale and and c are the input variales. #ote that ,air- is a
suscript on variale c. %y the way, .r. Mc$lain, the author of these functions shares my
fixation on units, so appropriate units must e used for the inputs, and the outputs already
have units attached. /ooray0
1ollowin' is a list of functions that are availale for air(
2nthalpy functions
h)prair*pr+
h)Tair*T+
h)vrair*vr+
Relative pressure function
pr)Tair*T+
s
3
function
s3)Tair*T+
Temperature functions
T)hair*h+
T)prair*pr+
T)sair*s+
T)uair*u+
T)vrair*vr+
Internal ener'y functions
u)prair*pr+
u)vrair*vr+
Relative volume function
vr)Tair*T+