Study on the novel suppression of heat transfer deterioration of supercritical water flowing in vertical tube through the suspension of alumina nanoparticles

SA Khan, C Eze, KT Lau, B Ali, S Ahmad, S Ni… - … Communications in Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the novel strategies of improving the heat transfer characteristics of heat exchanger
systems is the application of nanofluids as the heat transfer media. The purpose of the …

A review of heat transfer deterioration mechanisms and mitigation strategies of supercritical CO2 heat transfer

X Xu, L Teng, W Ran, Y Wang, C Liu - … Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
As a non-toxic, non-combustible natural working fluid, CO 2 is widely used in kinds of new
power generation systems and low-grade waste heat recovery due to its stable chemical …

Numerical investigation of the thermal-hydraulic performance of horizontal supercritical CO2 flows with half-wall heat-flux conditions

J Guo, J Song, S Narayan, KS Pervunin, CN Markides - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermo-hydraulic characteristics of supercritical CO 2 (SCO 2) flows in horizontal tubes with
half-wall heat-flux conditions are investigated numerically, which is a common practice such …

Turbulent heat transfer of highly buoyant supercritical CO2 flow in various horizontal pipes

J Wang, K Qin, J Gong, K Hooman - International Communications in Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Supercritical CO 2 (sCO 2) is considered as an ideal heat transfer fluid for power
cycles adapted to a wide range of heat sources. This paper employs computational …

Numerical investigation on flow and thermal performance of supercritical CO2 in a horizontal ribbed tube

S Mao, T Zhou, D Wei, W Liu, C Xue - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2022 - Elsevier
The numerical simulation is performed to investigate the thermal performance of
supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) in horizontal ribbed tubes at mass flux ranging from 200 …

Effects of circumferential heat conduction on heat transfer characteristics of supercritical R134a in horizontal tubes

R Xiao, Y Zhang, L Chen, J Wang, S Chen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, simulations of supercritical heat transfer of R134a in horizontal tubes are
performed to study the effects of circumferential heat conduction on the heat transfer …

Numerical study on the local heat transfer characteristic of supercritical CO2 in semicircular/circular channel under cooling condition

S Zhong, Y Ren, W Wu, Y Yang, Q Yang - International Journal of Heat and …, 2023 - Elsevier
A mathematic-physical model was established to explore the local heat transfer
characteristics of supercritical CO 2 in semicircular and circular channels under cooling …

Thermal behavior of supercritical CO2 inside scramjet cooling channels with different structural parameters

X Zhou, J Zuo, X Li, S Zhang, J Qin, W Bao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The supercritical CO 2 closed Brayton cycle is a promising cooling scheme for hypersonic
aircraft. However, the high pressure and large heat flux make the thermal behavior of …

A designed wall roughness approach to improve turbulent heat transfer to supercritical CO2 flowing in horizontal tubes

J Wang, J Yang, J Gong, C Zhao, K Hooman - The Journal of Supercritical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Supercritical flow through a horizontal pipe leads to a non-uniform peripheral wall
temperature distribution even when the wall heat flux is kept constant and uniform. This is …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of RANS turbulence models on predicting supercritical heat transfer in highly buoyant horizontal flows

J Wang, J Gong, X Kang, C Zhao, K Hooman - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper rigorously validates the RANS models against the DNS on predicting turbulent
flow and heat transfer of highly buoyant horizontal supercritical fluids. The low-Reynolds …