| Abstract |
Fluids close to their thermodynamic vapor-liquid critical point (CP), also called supercritical fluids, have been the subject of intensive study for a considerable period of time. However, fundamental computational studies of supercritical fluid flows, as well as compressible dense gas flows, are largely unexplored and physical phenomena related to turbulent flows are not well understood. Industrial interest in supercritical flows has been triggered by its applications as solvents in extraction processes in the chemical industry, for carbon capture and storage in combination with enhanced oil recovery, and as working fluids in thermal power plants. The highly nonlinear behavior of the thermophysical properties close to the critical point can be utilized to greatly improve the efficiencies of the aforementioned processes. The goal of the project is to study the fundamental underlying physics of compressible turbulent boundary flows close to the vapor-liquid critical point by means of large scale parallel numerical simulation. |
