Engineering Research Equipment Grant: An Advanced Computer Graphics Workstation

这是一项工程研究设备拨款，用于一个高级图形工作站，为爱荷华州立大学的工程研究提供计算和显示能力。该设备将用于根据已建立的状态方程计算热力学物理性质数据库，并以线框和连续色调表面的形式显示这些数据。这样的图纸将显示特定流体的相行为的结构以及基于它的工艺设计的结果。通过其强大的图形功能，工作站将解决相当复杂的解决效果，同时实时模拟影响这些平衡的物理和化学因素。

This is an engineering research equipment grant for an advanced graphics workstation to provide computational and display capability for research in engineering at Iowa State University. The equipment will be used for the calculation of thermodynamic physical properties data bases from established state equations and for the display of these data in the form of wireframe and continuous-tone surfaces. Such drawings will show both the structures of a particular fluid's phase behavior as well as the consequences of process designs based upon it. Through its powerful graphics features, the workstation will resolve quite complicated solution effects while simulating in real time the physical and chemical factors influencing those equilibria.