Isobaric heat capacity of carbon dioxide at critical pressure: singular thermodynamic functions as multiply broken power laws (Q2683257)

In this paper the author extends empirical data sets of singular thermodynamic functions, such as the isobaric heat capacity at critical pressure or the isochoric heat capacity at critical density, into the critical scaling regime [\textit{M. Barmatz} et al., ``Critical phenomena in microgravity: past, present, and future'', Rev. Modern Phys. 79, No. 1, 1--52 (2007; \url{doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.79.1})], where empirical data for fluids are scarce. It is substituted for missing data points by implementing calculated critical exponents in multiply broken power-law distributions. The regressed broken power laws cover the temperature range from the melting point up to \(T_c\) and from \(T_c\) to CO\(_2\) dissociation temperatures. Considered formalism is kept sufficiently general to be applicable to other thermodynamic functions with critical singularities and to multi-component mixtures.