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E E S Engineering Equation Solver for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems* Commercial and Professional Versions F-Chart Software http://fchart.com/ email: [email protected] *EES is designed to operate in the 32 and 64-bit Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 operating systems Copyright 1992-2018 by S.A. Klein All rights reserved. The author make no guarantee that the program is free from errors or that the results produced with it will be free of errors and assume no responsibility or liability for the accuracy of the program or for the results that may come from its use. EES was compiled with DELPHI 10 Seattle by Embarcadero The three-dimensional plotting package is based on a modification of the public domain GLScene package (http://www.glscene.org/). The genetic optimization method implemented in EES is derived from the public domain Pikaia optimization program (version 1.2, April 2002) written by Paul Charbonneau and Barry Knapp at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) (http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/research/si/pikaia/pikaia.html). Registration Number__________________________ ALL CORRESPONDENCE MUST INCLUDE THE REGISTRATION NUMBER V10.412 Table of Contents Table of Contents............................................................................................................................... iii Overview...............................................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1: Getting Started ..................................................................................................................5 Installing EES on your Computer ....................................................................................................5 Starting EES .........................................................................................................................5 Background Information ..................................................................................................................6 An Example Thermodynamics Problem ..........................................................................................9 Chapter 2: EES Windows.................................................................................................................23 General Information .......................................................................................................................23 Equations Window .........................................................................................................................25 Formatted Equations Window........................................................................................................29 Solution Window............................................................................................................................32 Arrays Window ..............................................................................................................................34 Computational Flow Window ........................................................................................................36 Residuals Window..........................................................................................................................37 Parametric Table Window..............................................................................................................39 Integral Table Window...................................................................................................................49 Diagram Window ...........................................................................................................................50 Development and Application Modes........................................................................................51 Moving the Diagram ..................................................................................................................52 Resizing the Diagram.................................................................................................................52 Adding and Moving Text on the Diagram Window ...........................................................53 Adding Graphic Items ............................................................................................59 Selecting, Modifying and Aligning Text and Graphic Items ..............................................61 Group and Ungroup Buttons ........................................................................................62 Adding a Calculate Button ..................................................................................................62 Adding a Plot Window Access Button ...............................................................................62 Creating Hot Areas and Child Diagram Windows (Professional Version only)........................64 Saving User Inputs ..............................................................................................................64 Creating Links (Professional Version) ...............................................................................65 Adding a Help Button .........................................................................................................67 Navigating through Child Diagram Window (Professional Version) ...........................68 Adding a Print Button ...........................................................................................................68 Adding an Audio-Visual Item .............................................................................................68 Saving and Loading User Inputs (Professional Version) .............................................69 Creating and Using Check Boxes (Professional Version) ..................................................70 Creating and Using Radio Groups (Professional Version) .................................................72 ii Animation (Professional Version) .............................................................................................73 Plot Windows .................................................................................................................................77 Moving the Plot ...................................................................................................................77 Adding / Changing Text and Text Characteristics .............................................................78 Moving Text...............................................................................................................................80 Adding Lines and Arrows, Rectangles and Circles ...............................................81 Moving Lines and Arrows, Rectangles and Circles...................................................................82 Resizing the Plot.........................................................................................................................83 Modifying the Axis Information ................................................................................................83 Aligning Items on the Plot Window ...................................................................................87 Crosshairs .............................................................................................................................87 3-D Plot Controls .......................................................................................................................88 Report Window (Professional Version) .........................................................................................92 Debug Window ..............................................................................................................................94 Incorrect Degrees of Freedom....................................................................................................94 Constrained Solution..................................................................................................................95 Unit Checking Report.................................................................................................................96 Macro Window .........................................................................................................................97 Calculator Window ................................................................................................................97 Chapter 3: Menu Commands...........................................................................................................99 The File Menu ................................................................................................................................99 The Edit Menu..............................................................................................................................110 The Search Menu .........................................................................................................................114 The Options Menu........................................................................................................................115 The Calculate Menu .....................................................................................................................136 The Tables Menu..........................................................................................................................145 The Plot Menu..............................................................................................................................154 The Windows Menu .....................................................................................................................167