Saturated-Steam-Property Functional Correlations for Fully Implicit Thermal Reservoir Simulation

Abstract

Summary Current methods for determining saturated-steam properties are to look them up in steam tables and interpolate and to use discontinuous polynomial approximations to the experimental data. The latter require heavy computation and are restricted to certain regions of the saturation envelope. This paper presents a complete suite of properties as functions of simple continuous polynomials throughout almost the entire saturation envelope.