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Simulis® Thermodynamics: an open framework for users and developers

2008; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1570-7946(08)80111-3

2543-1331

Olivier Baudouin, Stéphane Déchelotte, Philippe Guittard, Alain Vacher,

Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Simulis® is the name of ProSim's new software suite. The component-oriented approach of its architecture is based on the Microsoft®' s COM/DCOM middleware. Simulis® Thermodynamics, one of the first components, is a thermophysical calculation server that generates highly accurate pure component and mixture properties (thermodynamic, transport, compressibility…) and fluid phase equilibria (liquid-vapor, liquid-liquid and vapor-liquid-liquid). One main benefit of Simulis® Thermodynamics is its CAPE-OPEN compliance through its CAPE-OPEN thermodynamic plug and socket facilities. Another powerfull feature is the capability to use legacy codes either as a DLL (Dynamic Link Library) following a standard syntax, either as VBScript (Visual Basic Script) directly written from the Simulis® Thermodynamics' environment. The standard version of Simulis® Thermodynamics is provided as an add-in in Microsoft® Excel and as a toolbox in MATLAB® and enables the user to run complete thermodynamic calculations in these applications, but it can also be plugged in any legacy code using the SDK (Software Development Kit). This paper will introduce all these different features.