Supercritical pressure forced convection heat transfer

Jackson, J.D. and Hall, W.B. (1979) Forced convection heat transfer to fluids at supercritical pressure, in Turbulent Forced Convection in Channels and Bundles, vol. 2 (eds S. Kakac and D.B. Spaldin). Hemisphere, Washington. 

Pioro, I., Mokry, S., Draper, S., 2011. Specifics of thermophysical properties and forced-convective heat transfer at critical and supercritical pressures. Reviews in Chemical Engineering 27 (3—4), 191—214. 

Pioro, I., 2014. Application of supercritical pressures in power engineering specifics of thennophysical properties and forced-convective heat transfer. In Anikeev, V., Fan, M. (Eds.), Supereritical Fluid Technology for Energy and Environmental Applications. Elsevier, pp. 201—233. 

Prior to a general discussion on specifics of forced convective heat transfer at critical and supercritical pressures, it is important to define special terms and expressions used at these conditions. For a better understanding of these terms and expressions, their definitions are listed below together with complementary Fig. A4.1 [for further details, see also Appendix A3 and book by Pioro and Duffey (2007)]. 

A4.2 Specifics of forced convection heat transfer at supercritical pressures... 

Unfortunately, satisfactory analytical methods for practical prediction of forced convection heat transfer at supercritical pressures have not yet been developed due to the difficulty in dealing with steep property variations, especially in turbulent flows and at high heat fluxes. Therefore, generalized correlations based on experimental data are used for HTC calculations at supercritical pressures. 

Bishop, A.A., Sandberg, R.O., Tong, L.S., 1965. Forced convection heat transfer to water at near-critical temperatures and supercritical pressures. In A.I.Ch.E.-I.Chem.E. S3Tnposium Series, No. 2, pp. 77—85. 

Griem, H., 1996. A new procedure for the at near-and supercritical prediction pressure of forced convection heat transfer. Heat and Mass Transfer 3, 301—305. 

E. Stewart, P. Stewart and A. Watson, Thermo-acoustic oscillations in forced convection heat transfer to supercritical pressure water, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 16, 257-270 (1973)... 

A. A. Bishop, R. O. Sandberg and L. S. Tong, Forced Convection Heat Transfer to Water at Near-Critical Temperatures and Supercritical Pressures, WCAP-2056, Part IV, Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1964)... 

Technical Appendices, which provides readers with additional information and data on current nuclear power reactors and NPPs thermophysical properties of reactor coolants, thermophysical properties of fluids at suhcritical and critical/supercritical pressures, heat transfer and pressure drop in forced convection to fluids at supercritical pressures, world experience in nuclear steam reheat, etc. 

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