A web based program to visualize the transport and thermodynamic properties of thermal plasma

Abstract

The data of transport properties like viscosity, thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity of high temperature gases or gas mixtures used in thermal plasma devices, as a function of temperature is very much essential for the process modeling and theoretical simulation. Similarly the temperature variation of thermodynamic properties like density, specific heat and enthalpy also should be known. Calculated values of these properties of the gases or gas mixtures specific to thermal plasma devices are available as a function of temperature in tabular form. To share the knowledge about these values of properties, web based package of codes and database documents are developed. The modules present in the package works in client-server environment, where the inter communication is through HTTP protocol. The developed package is tested with Apache tomcat web container. The details of the code development and working procedure are described in this paper. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.