Thermo Special Interest Group met on March 28, 2023 from 9:30 am till 11 am (Central European Summer Time).
Agenda
- Progress the specification of tests on Property Packages
- Progress the errata and clarifications on Thermodynamic and Physical Properties interface specification v1.1
Participants
AmsterCHEM (represented by Jasper van BATEN), BASF (represented by Sergej BLAGOV), University of Cape Town (represented by Klaus MÖLLER), Michel PONS (Consultant as Chief Technology Officer). Apologies received from KBC (represented by Richard SZCZEPANSKI).
Highlights
Thermo SIG aims at developing explanations on how Phase presence is dealt with on a Material Object. These explanations will be inserted in section 6.1 of the Thermodynamic and Physical Properties interface specification v1.1. Section 6.1 describes the methods of ICapeThermoMaterial interface.
Therefore, Thermo SIG has started an Errata & Clarifications specific to interface ICapeThermoMaterial within the Thermodynamic and Physical Properties interface specification v1.1.
Thermo SIG began the review of each method description to figure out if Phase presence is properly referred to or mentioned as part of each method.
Today Thermo SIG went through ClearAllProps, CreateMaterial and CopyFromMaterial methods. It appears that the notions of configuration of a Material Object and of state of a Material Object need to be better described since they are repeatedly used but not completely defined.
Clarifications were brought mostly to the description of CreateMaterial and CopyFromMaterial methods. With respect to Phase presence and Phase status, notes for both CreateMaterial and CopyFromMaterial methods are now referring to both while, so far, only values of Physical Properties were referred to in these notes. It is not expected these clarifications are modifying the interface specification. They just better reflect what has been implemented.
