This article presents a general introduction to the thermophysical and dynamical properties
of supercritical fluids. It is organized in two parts: in a first section, the nature of the critical …

The mechanisms of heat and mass transport in a side-heated square cavity filled with a near-
critical fluid are explored, with special emphasis on the interplay between buoyancy-driven …

An analysis of the hydrodynamic stability of a fluid near its near critical point–initially at rest
and in thermodynamic equilibrium–is considered in the Rayleigh–Bénard configuration, ie …

An analysis of the free convection threshold of a near-critical fluid in the classical Rayleigh–
Bénard configuration (bottom-heating) is conducted by means of matched asymptotic …

This work brings new insight to the question of heat transfer in near–critical fluids under
Earth gravity conditions. The interplay between buoyant convection and thermoacoustic heat …

The thermal relaxation in a fixed-volume cell of a near-critical fluid is governed by the rapid
expansion of thermal boundary layers, which drive a series of thermoacoustic waves in the …

The heat transfer near the critical point is governed not only by diffusion, convection, and
radiation, but also by a thermomechanical coupling called the Piston Effect. This fourth mode …

This paper presents the mechanisms of heat and mass transport of 1D and 2D low Mach
number, unsteady, viscous, low heat diffusing, hypercompressible Navier-Stokes equations …

The fluid flow passing through the vicinity of the critical point in a micrometric capillary is
studied in the steady state. A phenomenological analysis of the Navier–Stokes and the heat …

This work brings new insight to the question of the piston effect, which has been found to be
the main cause of temperature equilibration in the vicinity of the liquid–vapor critical point …