Heat transfer characteristics of supercritical water in channels: A systematic literature review of 20 years of research

S Mao, T Zhou, D Wei, W Liu, Y Zhang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Supercritical water (SCW) is one of the high-profile fluids between scholars, which has great
potential in the thermal industry. Therefore, it may serve as a promising fluid utilized in …

Experimental insights into thermal performance of a microtube precooler with drastic coolant properties variation and precooling impacts on turbojet engine operation

H Li, Z Zou, Y Chen, P Du, C Fu, Y Wang - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In theory, the operating Mach number of a turbojet engine could be broadened by using
supercritical coolant precoolers. However, the thermal performance of microtube precoolers …

Study of fluid-to-fluid scaling for upward pipe flows of supercritical fluids using direct numerical simulation

J He, W Wang, J Yan, A Pucciarelli, P Jiang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fluid-to-fluid scaling is widely applied in experiments of supercritical fluid flows to reduce the
cost and technical difficulties. Different scaling schemes, in most cases, formulated using a …

Influence of vapor generator design on thermodynamic and techno-economic performances of transcritical organic Rankine cycle

Y Zhai, H Wang, Z Li - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Transcritical organic Rankine cycle is of great potential in converting low-grade heat into
electricity. Due to sharp variations in fluid thermophysical properties, accurate design of …

Characterisation of observed heat transfer deterioration modes at supercritical pressure with the aid of a CFD model

A Pucciarelli, S Kassem, W Ambrosini - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper analyses experimental data exhibiting heat transfer deterioration phenomena at
supercritical pressure resulting in quite different trends of wall temperature. The two modes …

Considerations on Current Methodologies for the Assessment of Engineering Correlations for Heat Transfer at Supercritical Pressures

S Kassem, A Pucciarelli… - International …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The design of industrial equipment operating at supercritical pressures, especially in
innovative nuclear reactors like Supercritical Water Reactors (SCWRs) at 25 MPa, demands …

Experimental assessment of the similarity law for a one-dimensional coupled heat and water vapor diffusion in hemp concrete

A Charaka, J Berger, F Benmahiddine… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Similarity law is a mathematical mapping that aims to set up equivalences between different
configurations regarding the involved physical parameters, space dimensions and the …

Experimental study on heat transfer behavior and prediction of heat transfer deterioration of supercritical nitrogen in vertical tubes

R Xiao, L Chen, Y Hou, C Du, Y Cai - International Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Heat transfer characteristics of supercritical cryogenic fluids play important role in thermal
equipment for liquid air energy storage, liquid hydrogen, etc. In this study, a low-temperature …

A shape function approach for predicting deteriorated heat transfer to supercritical pressure fluids on account of a thermal entry length phenomenon

A Pucciarelli, W Ambrosini - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper addresses the problem of predicting deteriorated heat transfer to supercritical
pressure fluids, trying a novel approach whose main features are obtained by consideration …

Fluid-to-fluid similarity and CFD predictions of surrogate fluid as a replacement for R11 refrigerant used in a subcooled flow boiling analysis: Validation against …

F Ayad, Y Bouaichaoui, H Aboshighiba - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we present the possibility of substituting the primary fluid Freon 11 (CCl 3 F,
R11) used in the experimental thermohydraulic test facility which offers the advantage to …