FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Aug. 24 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
Engineers must make predictions to design something new. A chemical engineer planning a storage tank needs to know how a gas or liquid will behave as temperature and pressure change. A biomedical engineer formulating a new pharmaceutical may have to predict how much of a drug compound will dissolve in water or other liquids and how temperature affects that process.
Engineers use equationsof state-specific mathematical representations of physical and chemical properties-to make those predictions. But an equation of state is only asaccurateas the data on whichit'sbased. Collecting more data can be difficult and expensive. And an equation of state do...