armi.materials.air module

Simple air material.

class armi.materials.air.Air[source]

Bases: armi.materials.material.Fluid

Dry, Near Sea Level.

Correlations based off of values in Incropera, Frank P., et al. Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer. Vol. 5. New York: Wiley, 2002.

Elemental composition from PNNL-15870 Rev. 1

https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-15870Rev1.pdf

name = 'Air'

temperature ranges based on where values are more than 1% off of reference

propertyValidTemperature = {'heat capacity': ((100, 1300), 'K'), 'pseudoDensity': ((100, 2400), 'K'), 'thermal conductivity': ((200, 850), 'K')}

Dictionary of valid temperatures over which the property models are valid in the format ‘Property Name’: ((Temperature_Lower_Limit, Temperature_Upper_Limit), Temperature_Units)

setDefaultMassFracs()[source]

Set mass fractions.

Notes

Mass fraction reference McConn, Ronald J., et al. Compendium of material composition data for radiation transport modeling. No. PNNL-15870 Rev. 1. Pacific Northwest National Lab.(PNNL), Richland, WA (United States), 2011.

https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-15870Rev1.pdf

pseudoDensity(Tk=None, Tc=None)[source]

Returns density of Air in g/cc.

This is from Table A.4 in Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer Incropera, DeWitt

Parameters
  • Tk (float, optional) – temperature in degrees Kelvin

  • Tc (float, optional) – temperature in degrees Celsius

Notes

In ARMI, we define pseudoDensity() and density() as the same for Fluids.

Returns

density – mass density in g/cc

Return type

float

specificVolumeLiquid(Tk=None, Tc=None)[source]

Returns the liquid specific volume in m^3/kg of this material given Tk in K or Tc in C.

thermalConductivity(Tk=None, Tc=None)[source]

Returns thermal conductivity of Air in g/cc.

This is from Table A.4 in Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer Incropera, DeWitt

Parameters
  • Tk (float, optional) – temperature in degrees Kelvin

  • Tc (float, optional) – temperature in degrees Celsius

Returns

thermalConductivity – thermal conductivity in W/m*K

Return type

float

heatCapacity(Tk=None, Tc=None)[source]

Returns heat capacity of Air in g/cc.

This is from Table A.4 in Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer Incropera, DeWitt

Parameters
  • Tk (float, optional) – temperature in degrees Kelvin

  • Tc (float, optional) – temperature in degrees Celsius

Returns

heatCapacity – heat capacity in J/kg*K

Return type

float