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CAPE Laboratory

Spring Semester 2022 - 2023

Objective: Numerical solution of a single nonlinear algebraic equation.

Problem:
Find the molar volume (Vm, mol/m3) of a gas at temperature T = 340 K and pressure P = 100
bar (107 Pa) using the Redlich Kwong Equation of State.

Here, P = Pressure (Pa), R = 8.314 J K-1 mol-1 , T = Temperature (K)


Select any gas (say, carbondioxide, nitrogen, etc.) and refer to any standard text book for the
values of of a, b, R.

Use the following numerical methods:


(a) Direct substitution method
(b) Wegstein convergence accelerator
(c) Bisection method
(d) Newton Raphson method
(e) MATLAB built-in function fzero

(a) Comment on the efficiency of these numerical methods in terms of computation time
and number of iterations.

(b) Show the effect of tolerence value in convergence criteria.

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