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Heat Transfers and Related Effects in Supercritical Fluids

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. General Introduction to Near-Critical and Supercritical Fluids

    • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
    Pages 1-48
  3. Introduction to Thermomechanical Effects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
    2. Introduction to Thermomechanical Effects

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 51-52
    3. Bridging Gas and Near-Critical Fluid Dynamics

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 53-65
    4. Temperature and Density Equilibration

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 67-123
    5. Heat Transfer

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 125-176
  4. Introduction to Heat Transfer Experiments Performed in Weightless Conditions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
    2. Introduction to Heat Transfer Experiments Performed in Weightless Conditions

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 179-181
    3. Quick Overview of Some Test Cells

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 183-197
    4. The Pancake Test Cell

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 199-211
    5. Heat Transport by the Piston Effect: Experiments

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 213-239
    6. Coexisting Liquid–Vapor Phases

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 241-260
  5. Introduction to Effects of a Steady-State Acceleration Field

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
    2. Introduction to Effects of a Steady-State Acceleration Field

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 263-265
    3. Interaction Between the Piston Effect and Gravitational Convection

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 267-283
    4. Rayleigh–Bénard and Rayleigh–Taylor Instabilities

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 285-315
    5. Experiments in a Weak Acceleration Field and on Earth

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 317-328
  6. Introduction to Influence of Time-Dependent Acceleration Fields

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329
    2. Introduction to Influence of Time-Dependent Acceleration Fields

      • Bernard Zappoli, Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos
      Pages 331-332

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

    Bernard Zappoli

  • Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris and Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Paris, France

    Daniel Beysens

  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Bordeaux 1, France, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, Pessac Cedex, France

    Yves Garrabos

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

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