《Viscosity and thermal conductivity equations for nitrogen》.pdf

International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2004 (© 2004) Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity Equations for Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, and Air E. W. Lemmon 1, 2 and R. T Jacobsen3 Received October 16, 2003 New formulations for the viscosity and thermal conductivity for nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and air are given. Air is treated as a pseudo-pure fluid using an approach adopted from previous research on the equation of state for air. The equations are valid over all liquid and vapor states, and a simplified cross-over equation was used to model the behavior of the critical enhancement for thermal conductivity. The extrapolation behavior of the equations for nitrogen and argon well below their triple points was monitored so that both could be used as reference equations for extended corresponding states applications. The uncertainties of calculated values from the equations are generally within 2% for nitrogen and argon and within 5% for oxygen and air, except in the critical region where the uncertainties are higher. Comparisons with the available experimental data are given. KEY WORDS: air; argon; nitrogen; oxygen; thermal conductivity; viscosity. 1. INTRODUCTION The work presented here on the transport properties of air and its constit- uent fluids is the result of more than a decade of research on the properties of air at the University of Idaho and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Publications resulting from this work include measurements on the PVT, isochoric heat capacity, and speed of sound of dry air (Howley et al. [1]; Magee [2]; Younglove and Frederick [3]), the visco