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A detailed analysis of the design and materials that are used in an ideal pancake cell is presented. Indeed, most of the studies have been carried out in disk-shaped cells, like “pancake” cells, where a thin fluid layer is confined between two flat parallel transparent windows of large thickness, needed to support the high internal pressure of the confined fluid. The main characteristic parameters of length and time governing the fluid thermal behavior during the pancake cell heating are defined.
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Zappoli, B., Beysens, D., Garrabos, Y. (2015). The Pancake Test Cell. In: Heat Transfers and Related Effects in Supercritical Fluids. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9187-8_8
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