Print Email Facebook Twitter Siloxanes: A new class of candidate Bethe-Zel’dovich-Thompson fluids Title Siloxanes: A new class of candidate Bethe-Zel’dovich-Thompson fluids Author Colonna, P. Guardone, A. Nannan, N.R. Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Process and Energy Date 2007-08-21 Abstract This paper presents a new class of Bethe-Zel’dovich-Thompson fluids, which are expected to exhibit nonclassical gasdynamic behavior in the single-phase vapor region. These are the linear and cyclic siloxanes, light silicon oils currently employed as working fluids in organic Rankine cycle turbines. State-of-the-art multiparameter equations of state are used to describe the thermodynamic properties of siloxanes and to compute the value of the fundamental derivative of gasdynamics ?, whose negative sign is the herald of nonclassical gasdynamics. Siloxane fluids starting from D6 and cyclic siloxanes of greater complexity, and MD3M and linear siloxanes of greater complexity are predicted to exhibit a thermodynamic region in which ? is negative and hence nonclassical wavefields are admissible. As an exemplary case, a nonclassical rarefaction shock wave propagating in fluid D6 is studied to demonstrate the possibility of using siloxane fluids in nonclassical gasdynamic applications and to experimentally verify the existence of nonclassical wavefields in the vapor phase. The sensitivity of the present results to the considered thermodynamic model of the fluid is also briefly discussed. Subject equations of stateorganic compoundsrarefied fluid dynamicsshock waves To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1fcb4772-a453-4c5a-b94c-c6a93c8cb6c2 DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2759533 Publisher American Institute of Physics ISSN 1070-6631 Source http://link.aip.org/link/PHFLE6/v19/i8/p086102/s1 Source Physics of Fluids, 19 (8), 2007 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2007 The Author(s); American Institute of Physics Files PDF Colonna_2007.pdf 690.87 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1fcb4772-a453-4c5a-b94c-c6a93c8cb6c2/datastream/OBJ/view