Overview of common thermophysical property modelling approaches for cryogenic fluid simulations at supercritical conditions

JV Madana Gopal, R Morgan, G De Sercey… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) frameworks of supercritical cryogenic fluids need to
employ Real Fluid models such as cubic Equations of State (EoS) to account for thermal and …

Surface tension effects on cryogenic liquid injection dynamics in supercritical environment

JV Madana Gopal, R Morgan, G de Sercey… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The injection of cryogenic fluids into environments where the prevailing conditions are
supercritical in comparison to the critical point of the injected cryogenic fluid is encountered …

Contribution to the physical description of supercritical cold flow injection: The case of nitrogen

LB Magalhaes, ARR Silva, JMM Barata - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
While increased pressure and temperature contribute to an overall efficiency gain in the
mixing of propellants and oxidizers, characteristic of conditions in the combustion chambers …

Analyzing single and multicomponent supercritical jets using volume-based and mass-based numerical approaches

FNZ Rahantamialisoa, JV Madana Gopal, G Tretola… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The injections of cryogenic and non-cryogenic fluids in a supercritical environment,
respectively, liquid N2 into gaseous N2 and n-dodecane into gaseous N2, are investigated …

Simulation study on the cryogenic liquid nitrogen jets: Effects of equations of state and turbulence models

J Ma, H Liu, L Liu, M Xie - Cryogenics, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on the open source software OpenFOAM, a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
solver is developed for trans/supercritical jets. Considering the real-fluid effects, the pressure …

Supercritical Injection Modeling by an Incompressible but Variable Density Approach

LB Magalhães, ARR Silva, JMM Barata - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
Supercritical nitrogen jet behavior is modeled using an incompressible but variable density
approach developed for variable density jets. Following mechanical and thermal breakup …

Heat transfer effect on the modeling of jets under supercritical and transcritical conditions

LB Magalhães, AR Silva, JM Barata - CEAS Space Journal, 2024 - Springer
The injection of nitrogen under supercritical and transcritical conditions, where the injection
temperature is below nitrogen's critical point, but the pressure is above it, is considered in …

Computational Analysis of High-Pressure Nitrogen Jets from Transcritical to Supercritical Gas-Like Conditions

LB Magalhães, AR Silva, JM Barata - AIAA Propulsion and Energy …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-3341. vid A fluid is considered to
be in a supercritical state if its pressure and temperature are above their critical point values …

Computational study on coaxial nitrogen-hydrogen injection at supercritical conditions

LB Magalhães, AR Silva, JM Barata - AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0877. vid In the present work, we
perform a computational study on the mixing of nitrogen and hydrogen at supercritical …

The Role of Injector Heat Transfer in Supercritical Injection Phenomena

LB Magalhaes, AR Silva, JM Barata - AIAA Propulsion and Energy …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Pressure and temperature increase in combustion chambers of Liquid Rocket Engines
(LRE's), while enhancing injection and combustion efficiencies, leads to both fuels and …