METSIM MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS

THE FOLLOWING ARE MATH FUNCTIONS FOR USE IN APL EXPRESSIONS AND FUNCTIONS

Air and Water

Td FAHM Tw ; Returns the absolute humidity from the dry bulb Td and wet bulb Tw.

Td FVPA Tw ; Returns the vapor pressure of water in air at dry bulb Td and wet
bulb Tw. .
FVPR Tc ; Returns the vapor pressure (kPa) of water at temperature Tc
(Celsius).

Date and Time

FDAT 1 ; Returns the current date.

FDAT 2 ; Returns the current date and time.

FDAY date ; Returns 5 values, the date, negative days since 1900, year, month,
day.
FDAY -day ; Returns 5 values, the date, negative days since 1900, year, month,
day.
FDAY ymd ; Returns 5 values, the date, negative days since 1900, year, month,
day.
R = date -day ymd (year month day)

e.g. 20030101 -37621 2003 1 1

Financial

r FNPV nv ; Returns net present value of cash flow vector nv at rate r.

FROR nv ; Returns the rate of return for the cash flow vector nv.

Numeric Matrices

FCOL nv ; Returns a numeric matrix with vector nv in the first column.

ns FINT nm ; Returns the interpolated values for ns from matrix nm.

xy FIN2 nm ; Returns the two-way interpolated value from matrix nm.

nv FMCL nm ; Returns the product of nv times the columns in matrix nm.

nv FMRW nm ; Returns the product of nv times the rows in matrix nm.

ns FSRT nm ; Returns the matrix nm sorted along column ns.

FTDA nv ; Returns a numeric matrix with vector nv in the first row.

FWPA nm ; Returns a numeric matrix with each row the weight fractions of that
row.
C FFOR nm ; Formats numeric matrix with column width C with maximum decimals.

C FFO2 nm ; Formats numeric matrix with column width C with integers.

FFIL nm ; Fills matrix M replacing 0's with interpolated values.

Numeric Vectors

FAVE nv ; Returns the average value of vector nv.

nv FDEF dv ; Returns vector nv with the zero values replaced by defaults from
vector dv. .
FDIF nv ; Returns a vector of the differences between values of vector nv.

FDLD nv ; Returns a vector nv without and duplicate numbers.

ns FIND nv ; Returns the locations of ns in vector nv.

FNEG nv ; Returns the negative values from vector nv.

FNST nv ; Returns the sorted vector of nv.

FNZR nv ; Returns the non zero values of nv.

FPOS nv ; Returns the positive values in nv.

ns FRNA nv ; Returns the ns point running average of vector nv.

FRND nv ; Returns the rounded off vector nv.

FSTD nv ; Returns the standard deviation of vector nv.

FWPC nv ; Returns the weight fraction of vector nv.

FRNG nv ; Returns the range, minimum and maximum vales of vector nv.

Programming
 FZDV ns ; Returns a value ns or 1 if ns equals 0. Prevents zero divide
errors.

Temperature

FCEN Tf ; Returns the Celsius equivalent of Fahrenheit Tf.

FFAR Tc ; Returns the Fahrenheit equivalent of Celsius Tc.

FLDT t,t ; Returns the log mean dela temperature.

Text Matrices

FAST tm ; Returns the text matrix tm sorted alphabetically.

ts FFND tm ; Returns the location (rows) of text string ts in text matrix tm.

FDAB T ; Deletes all blanks from text T.

FDEB T ; Deletes extraneous blanks from text T.

FDLB T ; Deletes leading blanks from text T.

FDTB T ; Deletes trailing blanks from text T.

FALL T ; Alligns text matrix T to the left.

FALR T ; Allings text matrix T to the right.

Trigonometry

FCOS A ; Returns the cosine of angle A (degrees).

FSIN A ; Returns the sine of angle A (degrees).

FTAN A ; Returns the tangent of angle A (degrees).

FCAR D ; Returns area of circle of diameter D.

Stream

S FMUL ns ; Multiplies stream S by the factor ns.

FSHC S ; Calculates the stream heat content after a change in temperature.

 FTEM S ; Calculates the stream temperature after a change in heat content.

FSSE S,F,s; Sets the value of stream S equal to F times the value of stream s.

FZER S ; Sets all numeric values of stream S equal to zero.

FZERO S ; Sets all numeric values of stream S equal to zero

and all labels to blanks.

A FSUB B ; Subtracts stream B from stream A, A=A-B.

S FADD F ; Adds streams, stream S equals sum of all streams F.

Miscellaneous

FTHP ; Returns total HP from all unit operations.

FTKW ; Returns total KW from all unit operations.

FUCM ; Insert *'s in component names of usused components.

1 FLNG LAT ; Plots the daily solar energy in Langleys at latitude L.

FPCP X ; Converts vector of weights retained to vector of fraction passing.

FPCR X ; Converts vector of fraction passing to vector of weights retained.

X FPOL C ; Solves polynomial equation with coefficients C and X to the powers 0

1,etc.
N FPOLY XY ; Fits a polynomial equation to data XY, with N coefficients.