Overview
- Addresses problems that engineers have to face with the management of supercritical fluids under space conditions of weightlessness
- Additional basic information is provided on statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics and measurement techniques adapted to space conditions
- Investigates the unique hydrodynamics and heat transfer problems that are encountered in the vicinity of the critical point of fluids
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (FMIA, volume 108)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Thermomechanical Effects
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Introduction to Heat Transfer Experiments Performed in Weightless Conditions
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Introduction to Effects of a Steady-State Acceleration Field
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Introduction to Influence of Time-Dependent Acceleration Fields
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About this book
This book investigates the unique hydrodynamics and heat transfer problems that are encountered in the vicinity of the critical point of fluids. Emphasis is given on weightlessness conditions, gravity effects and thermovibrational phenomena. Near their critical point, fluids indeed obey universal behavior and become very compressible and expandable. Their comportment, when gravity effects are suppressed, becomes quite unusual.
The problems that are treated in this book are of interest to students and researchers interested in the original behavior of near-critical fluids as well as to engineers that have to manage supercritical fluids. A special chapter is dedicated to the present knowledge of critical point phenomena. Specific data for many fluids are provided, ranging from cryogenics (hydrogen) to high temperature (water). Basic information in statistical mechanics, mathematics and measurement techniques is also included. The basic concepts of fluid mechanics are given for the non-specialists to be able to read the parts he is interested in. Asymptotic theory of heat transfer by thermoacoustic processes is provided with enough details for PhD students or researchers and engineers to begin in the field. Key spaces are described in details, with many comparisons between theory and experiments to illustrate the topics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heat Transfers and Related Effects in Supercritical Fluids
Authors: Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
Series Title: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9187-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9186-1Published: 28 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0350-3Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9187-8Published: 17 November 2014
Series ISSN: 0926-5112
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 454
Number of Illustrations: 138 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer