NIST Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Fundamental Fluid Behavior

Thermophysical properties are a key to efficiently and effectively designing the processes to produce and use the many fluids important in our economy, ranging from fuels to refrigerants to foodstuffs. However, while there are tens of thousands of fluids in use, some of them at the level of hundreds of millions of tonnes per year, good property data are available for only a few dozen fluids. A better understanding of fundamental fluid behavior would allow the accurate prediction of properties for those fluids lacking good data an...