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Modeling convective and wave processes and heat transfer in near-supercritical media. An overview

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The results of mathematical modeling and experimental investigation of flows and heat transfer in supercritical media in the vicinity of the critical thermodynamic point under microgravity and terrestrial conditions are considered. The effects of thermal gravitational convection and thermoacoustics complicated by the adiabatic compression effect, as well as the special features of two- and three-dimensional supercritical structures, are discussed. The experimental results obtained aboard the space station Mir are interpreted. The projects of experiments aboard the International Space Station, together with their terrestrial applications, are discussed.

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Polezhaev, 2011, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2011, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 9–32.

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Polezhaev, V.I. Modeling convective and wave processes and heat transfer in near-supercritical media. An overview. Fluid Dyn 46, 175–195 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462811020025

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