Print Email Facebook Twitter Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow with supercritical fluid in a heated pipe Title Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow with supercritical fluid in a heated pipe Author Nemati, H. Patel, A. Boersma, B.J. Pecnik, R. Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Process and Energy Date 2013-08-31 Abstract This work investigates turbulent heat transfer to a pipe flow with a fluid close to its vapour-liquid critical point. The flow is simulated using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the anelastic Navier-Stokes equations at a Reynolds number of Ret = 360, based on the friction velocity ut at the inlet and the diameter of the pipe. Turbulent statistics for two cases with forced and mixed convection are discussed. A decrease in turbulent kinetic energy is observed for both cases due to flow acceleration and buoyancy effects. Furthermore it is observed that the correlation between turbulent heat flux and Reynolds stresses is lower than in subcritical flows. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:41ac8676-0e70-402d-a575-5b21380f4658 Source TSFP-8: Conference Proceedings 8th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Poitiers, France, 27-30 August 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) The Author(s) Files PDF 319063.pdf 395.95 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:41ac8676-0e70-402d-a575-5b21380f4658/datastream/OBJ/view