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Fluid density

Fluid densities ρ are calculated from pressure p, temperature T, constituent mass fractions yi and molar weights Mi as

$$\rho =\frac{p}{RT\mathop{\sum }^{}\left( {{y}_{i}}/{{M}_{i}} \right)}$$


where R is the universal gas constant. The calculations are coded in appSrc files rhoAir.H and rhoFuel.H.


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