ERC Consolidator Grant · 2019
When Flows Turn Turbulent in the Supercritical Fluid Region
From concentrated solar power plants to rocket engines, energy conversion systems are continually re-engineered to perform ever better. Often this involves fluids being pushed into the supercritical region, where highly non-ideal thermodynamic effects are at play. Yet, our fundamental understanding of flow physics at such conditions lags behind to successfully realize these exciting engineering applications. Especially, the sharp variations in all thermophysical properties close to the critical point and the high optical density at supercritical pressures lead to significantly richer flow physics and even more intricate phenomena in turbulence. What is needed is a systematic study at the…
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