from Cantera import * import math def equilSoundSpeeds(gas, rtol = 1.0e-6, maxiter = 5000): """Returns a tuple containing the equilibrium and frozen sound speeds for a gas with an equilibrium composition. The gas is first set to an equilibrium state at the temperature and pressure of the gas, since otherwise the equilibrium sound speed is not defined. """ # set the gas to equilibrium at its current T and P gas.equilibrate('TP', rtol = rtol, maxiter = maxiter) # save properties s0 = gas.entropy_mass() p0 = gas.pressure() r0 = gas.density() # perturb the pressure p1 = p0*1.0001 # set the gas to a state with the same entropy and composition but # the perturbed pressure gas.set(S = s0, P = p1) # save the density for this case for the frozen sound speed rho_frozen = gas.density() # now equilibrate the gas holding S and P constant gas.equilibrate("SP", loglevel=0, rtol = rtol, maxiter = maxiter) # , rtol = 1.0e-3, maxsteps=10000) r1 = gas.density() # equilibrium sound speed aequil = math.sqrt((p1 - p0)/(r1 - r0)); # frozen sound speed afrozen = math.sqrt((p1 - p0)/(rho_frozen - r0)); # compute the frozen sound speed using the ideal gas # expression as a check cp = gas.cp_mass() cv = gas.cv_mass() gamma = cp/cv afrozen2 = math.sqrt(gamma*GasConstant*gas.temperature() /gas.meanMolecularWeight()) return (aequil, afrozen, afrozen2) # test program if __name__ == "__main__": gas = GRI30() gas.set(X = 'CH4:1.00, O2:2.0, N2:7.52') for n in range(27): temp = 300.0 + n*100.0 gas.set(T = temp, P = OneAtm) print temp, equilSoundSpeeds(gas)