Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #27136
From: BillDube@killacycle.com <billdube@killacycle.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: specific heat of air
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:35:36 -0600
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
At 08:39 PM 10/21/2005, you wrote:
     Specific Heat (Cp) Density Specific Gravity Specific Heat (Cp) Temp. Pressure Temp. Pressure Density
     Substance Chemical
     Symbol  Mol.
     Weight  ° F BTU/lb Air = 1 BTU/lb °F  lb/cu. ft  Water = 1 BTU/lb °F °F  psia  °F  psia  lb/cu ft
     Air -- 28.98 -317.8 88.2 1 0.241  0.08018

from NIST RefProps program, I get:

Cp = 0.24064 BTU/lbm-F (constant pressure)
Cv=0.17170 BTU/lbm-F (constant volume)

Density = 0.072183 lbm/cuft

Multiply to get the units you are after.

The specific heat is, by devinition, per unit mass, not per unit volume.


Bill Dube'



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