Due to their high specific heat, low viscosity, and good diffusivity, supercritical fluids have the potential to be ideal coolants. In addition, the supercritical heat transfer properties are shown to result in up to 45% efficiency in nuclear power generation, which operates nearly at 550°C. However, understanding the heat transfer for fluids under supercritical conditions has been a...
Turbulent heat transfer is an extremely complex phenomenon and is critical in scientific and industrial applications. It becomes much more challenging in a buoyancy-influenced flow regime, particularly for non-unity Prandtl number (Pr) fluids. In this article, an effort has been put forward to assess the prediction capabilities of different Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) based...
