The goal of this project is to deliver CyberCHEQS: a cyberinfrastructure of distributed thermodynamic Web Services. These services will represent an infrastructure of loosely coupled, network-accessible thermodynamic methods and data, which are available to the public Internet community for thermochemical computation and data retrieval. These services will provide thermal science researchers with an automated way to compute thermochemical and thermophysical characteristics of thousands of chemical species at different thermodynamic states, upload and test new thermodynamic data, and make uploaded data accessible to others in the community. Distributed thermodynamic data and methods can also be incorporated into engineering applications designed to simulate physical processes such as those encountered in IC engines, gas turbines, rocket nozzles, catalytic converters, and other chemically reacting systems. The proposed infrastructure of services will, for the first time, take advantage of what is known in the field of computer science as a service-oriented architecture (SOA). And by using standardized Web Services and providing easy to use software tools that allow engineers to upload data and run experiments, the project will be able to facilitate online collaboration among users from diverse scientific backgrounds. As such, t his work will have a sweeping impact on research and teaching in thermal and chemical sciences as well as revolutionize the way developers of scientific software think about the design of tools for end users of thermochemical data.
The goal of this project is to deliver a cyber infrastructure of distributed thermodynamic Web Services - loosely coupled, network-accessible thermodynamic methods and data - available to the public Internet community for thermo-chemical computation and data retrieval. The significant outcomes are as follows: 1. Creation of a web service based thermo-chemical database: cheqs.sdsu.edu. This is open to the community to access, compare, and use thermo-chemical data from different sources such as NASA or NIST. 2. Development of a web service based chemical equilibrium solver. Students and researchers can use this tool (linked from test.sdsu.edu RIA's module) to calculate equilibrium products composition, equilibrium temperature and other useful results in the combustion of fossil fuels. 3. Development of an equilibrium-coupled ideal gas model. The ideal gas model, routinely used to analyze thermal devices that involve gases, becomes inaccurate at high temperaure when species starts dissociating. The new model called the IGE (ideal gas equilibrium) model takes into the changing composition of the gas. 4. Thermodynamics - An interactive Approach is the name of a textbook that is scheduled to be released by Pearson in July 2014. The book incoroporates some of the tools developed as part of this project. 5. Engineering Unit Converter: This is a widely popular unit conversion app written for android platform. It was created as a demonstration of mobile based computing and is now freely available.
