Abstract
Two calculation models for estimating the rate of pressure growth in a large nondrained tank filled with a liquified gas under zero gravity are analyzed. Two limiting cases are considered. According to the first model it is assumed that heat is distributed uniformly over the entire mass of the liquid and gas, which are in thermodynamic equilibrium. This model yields the upper bound of the time in which a prescribed pressure is attained in the tank. In the second model one completely ignores any convection, the liquid boils at the tank wall, and the time is estimated (the lower bound) according to a nonstationary ablation model.
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K. É. Tsiolkovskii Moscow Aeronautical Technological Institute. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 67, Nos. 1–2, pp. 14–19, July–August, 1994.
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Nevrovskii, V.A. Estimation of the time for pressure growth in a tank with a cryogenic liquid in zero gravity. J Eng Phys Thermophys 67, 690–695 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00853315
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00853315