Heat transfer under powerful heat release in supercritical-pressure liquids

Numerical Study on the Heat Transfer of Carbon Dioxide in Horizontal Straight Tubes under Supercritical Pressure

Cooling heat transfer of supercritical CO2 in horizontal straight tubes with wall is numerically investigated by using FLUENT. The results show that almost all models are able to present the trend of heat transfer qualitatively, and the stand k-ε with enhanced wall treatment model shows the best agreement with the experimental data, followed by LB low Re turbulence model. Then further studies a...

Fast heat transfer calculations in supercritical fluids versus hydrodynamic approach.

This study investigates the heat transfer in a simple pure fluid whose temperature is slightly above its critical temperature. We propose an efficient numerical method to predict the heat transfer in such fluids when the gravity can be neglected. The method, based on a simplified thermodynamic approach, is compared with direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes and energy equations perf...

Numerical investigation of heat transfer in parallel channels with water at supercritical pressure

Thermal phenomena such as heat transfer enhancement, heat transfer deterioration, and flow instability observed at supercritical pressures as a result of fluid property variations have the potential to affect the safety of design and operation of Supercritical Water-cooled Reactor SCWR, and also challenge the capabilities of both heat transfer correlations and Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD p...

Delft University of Technology Characteristics of turbulent heat transfer in an annulus at supercritical pressure

Diameter effect on the heat transfer of supercritical hydrocarbon fuel in horizontal tubes under turbulent conditions

This article presented a numerical investigation of supercritical heat transfer of hydrocarbon fuel in a series of horizontal tubes with different diameters. It has been carried out by solving Reynolds averaging equations of mass, momentum and energy with the LS low-Reynolds number turbulence model using the pressure-based segregated solver based on the finite volume method. For the purpose of ...