specificheat

pychemengg.physicalproperties.airproperties.specificheat(T=None)[source]

Provides specific heat of air at a temperature T.

Parameters
Tint or float

Temperature in ‘Celsius’ at which specific heat is required.

Returns
specific heatint or float

Specific heat (J/kg K) at temperature T.

Notes

Look up table adapted from ref [1].

Linear interpolation is performed when the temperature lies between tabulated entries.

References

[1] Yunus A. Cengel and Afshin J. Ghajar, “Heat And Mass Transfer Fundamentals and Applications”, 6th Edition. New York, McGraw Hill Education, 2020.

Examples

First import the module airproperties.

>>> from pychemengg.physicalproperties import airproperties as ap 
>>> ap.specificheat(T=42.5)
1007.0