ThermoQA - Component Analysis: leaderboard

Metric: Tier 2 weighted step score (%): 101 single-component problems (turbines, compressors, pumps, heat exchangers, boilers, mixing chambers, nozzles) at three analysis depths up to exergy destruction, steps weighted by engineering importance, over the 293 open-ended engineering thermodynamics problems of ThermoQA (ground truth computed with CoolProp 7.2.0 for water, R-134a and variable-cp air), zero-shot with a symbol = value unit answer format, each model at its stated reasoning setting, mean of three independent runs; values are extracted by regex and gpt-4.1-mini and a property counts as correct within 2 percent relative or 0.5 absolute tolerance (0.03 for quality, 0.02 for efficiencies and COP); higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)92.1
2Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)90.8
3GPT-5.4 (High)90.8
4MiniMax-M2.576.2

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