Cryogenic propellant management in space: open challenges and perspectives

A Simonini, M Dreyer, A Urbano, F Sanfedino… - npj …, 2024 - nature.com
This paper presents open challenges and perspectives of propellant management for
crewed deep space exploration. The most promising propellants are liquid hydrogen and …

A review of numerical investigation on pool boiling

H Jiang, Y Liu, H Chu - Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2023 - Springer
The rapid development of industrial technology and the increasing computational power
have provided the possibility to improve the accuracy of multiphase flow field simulation …

On the coupling between direct numerical simulation of nucleate boiling and a micro-region model at the contact line

L Torres, A Urbano, C Colin, S Tanguy - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
During the past years, numerical simulations of Nucleate Boiling have attracted increasing
attention. If significant advances have already been performed on the conception of accurate …

An extended model for the direct numerical simulation of droplet evaporation. Influence of the Marangoni convection on Leidenfrost droplet

G Mialhe, S Tanguy, L Tranier, ER Popescu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose an extended model for the numerical simulation of evaporating
droplets within the framework of interface capturing or interface tracking methods. Most …

Direct numerical simulation of gas-liquid mass transfer around a spherical contaminated bubble in the stagnant-cap regime

K Kentheswaran, N Dietrich, S Tanguy… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Direct Numerical Simulations are performed to investigate the gas-liquid mass
transfer around a rising spherical bubble contaminated by insoluble surfactants. The …

A compressible solver for two phase-flows with phase change for bubble cavitation

M Bibal, M Deferrez, S Tanguy, A Urbano - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present work describes the development of a novel fully compressible solver for two-
phase flows with liquid-vapour phase change. Phase change phenomena in compressible …

On the modelling of the transition between contact-line and microlayer evaporation regimes in nucleate boiling

L Bureš, Y Sato - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Formation of a microlayer in nucleate boiling results in substantial changes to the heat-
transfer dynamics of the process, and establishing a criterion to distinguish between the …

Investigation on the effect of convective outflow boundary condition on the bubbles growth, rising and breakup dynamics of nucleate boiling

W Zhao, J Liang, M Sun, Z Wang - International Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, a phase-change lattice Boltzmann model was employed to simulate the effects
of two computational domains with confined space and free outlet boundary considering the …

A semi implicit compressible solver for two-phase flows of real fluids

A Urbano, M Bibal, S Tanguy - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of numerical solvers able to simulate compressible two-phase flows is still
a great challenge in computational fluid dynamics. The interaction between acoustic waves …

Power law exponents for single bubbles growth in nucleate pool boiling at zero gravity

O Oikonomidou, M Kostoglou, S Evgenidis… - … Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nucleate pool boiling is an important boiling mode used in various fields of application.
Bubble detachment and new bubble generation at the nucleation site is an important aspect …