.Buildings.Media.Water

Information

This medium package models liquid water.

The mass density is computed using a constant value of 995.586 kg/s. For a medium model in which the density is a function of temperature, use Buildings.Media.Specialized.Water.TemperatureDependentDensity which may have considerably higher computing time.

For the specific heat capacities at constant pressure and at constant volume, a constant value of 4184 J/(kg K), which corresponds to 20°C is used. The figure below shows the relative error of the specific heat capacity that is introduced by this simplification.

The enthalpy is computed using the convention that h=0 if T=0 °C.

Limitations

Density, specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity and viscosity are constant. Water is modeled as an incompressible liquid. There are no phase changes.

Contents

Name	Description
BaseProperties	Base properties (p, d, T, h, u, R, MM and X and Xi) of a medium
enthalpyOfLiquid	Return the specific enthalpy of liquid

Revisions

• September 28, 2020, by Michael Wetter:
  Reformulated BaseProperties to avoid event-triggering assertions.
  This is for #1401.
• October 26, 2018, by Filip Jorissen and Michael Wetter:
  Now printing different messages if temperature is above or below its limit, and adding instance name as JModelica does not print the full instance name in the assertion. This is for #1045.
• June 6, 2015, by Michael Wetter:
  Set AbsolutePressure(start=p_default) to avoid a translation error if Buildings.Fluid.Sources.Examples.TraceSubstancesFlowSource (if used with water instead of air) is translated in pedantic mode in Dymola 2016. The reason is that pressures use Medium.p_default as start values, but Modelica.Media.Interfaces.Types sets a default value of 1E-5. A similar change has been done for pressure and density. This fixes #266.
• June 6, 2015, by Michael Wetter:
  Changed type of BaseProperties.T from Modelica.Units.SI.Temperature to Temperature. Otherwise, it has a different start value than Medium.T, which causes an error if Buildings.Media.Examples.WaterProperties is translated in pedantic mode. This fixes #266.
• June 5, 2015, by Michael Wetter:
  Added stateSelect attribute in BaseProperties.T to allow correct use of preferredMediumState as described in Modelica.Media.Interfaces.PartialMedium, and set preferredMediumState=false to keep the same states as were used before. This is for #260.
• June 5, 2015, by Michael Wetter:
  Removed ThermodynamicState declaration as this lead to the error "Attempting to redeclare record ThermodynamicState when the original was not replaceable." in Dymola 2016 using the pedantic model check.
• May 1, 2015, by Michael Wetter:
  Added Inline=true for issue 227.
• February 25, 2015, by Michael Wetter:
  Removed stateSelect attribute on pressure as this caused Buildings.Examples.Tutorial.SpaceCooling.System3 to fail with the error message "differentiated if-then-else was not continuous".
• October 15, 2014, by Michael Wetter:
  Reimplemented media based on 446aa83.
• November 15, 2013, by Michael Wetter:
  Complete new reimplementation because the previous version had the option to add a compressibility to the medium, which has never been used.