Cryogenic Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer: Theory, Methods and Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J1: Heat and Mass Transfer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 4 September 2024 | Viewed by 784
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cryogenic liquids are fluids whose temperature are typically below 120 K. Typical cryogenic liquids, such as liquid hydrogen, liquid nitrogen, liquid natural gas, and liquid oxygen, usually serve as the fuels in rocket propulsion systems and other cryogenic applications, and are generally operated close to their critical points. Compared to room temperature fluids, such as water, cryogenic fluids often have lower viscosity, surface tension, and liquid–gas density ratio, and steeper saturated vapor pressure–temperature relationships. These characteristics make the flow, heat transfer, and phase transition characteristics of cryogenic two-phase flows exhibit different characteristics, resulting in different correlations.
Cryogenic two-phase flow is a very common phenomenon that occurs in many cryogenic liquid mechanical devices, including hydraulic machinery such as centrifugal pumps, turbines, hydrofoils and liquid channels such as deflectors, flow meters, valves, pipes, and nozzles. It is related to the core key technical issues faced by aerospace and multiple other industrial fields, such as air separation. In recent years, with the development of liquid hydrogen technology, the application of liquid hydrogen two-phase flow is more and more extensive.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, design, modelling, application, measurement and control of all types of cryogenic two-phase flows.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Fundamental theory of multiphase flows for cryogenic fluids;
- Theoretical/computational multiphase flows for cryogenic fluids;
- Experimental multiphase flows in cryogenic fluids;
- Applications of multiphase flows in cryogenic fluids;
- Advanced computational methodologies of multiphase flows;
- Cryogenic multiphase flows in aerospace;
- Cryogenic multiphase flows in hydrogen energy.
Prof. Dr. Xiaobin Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cryogenic
- two-phase flow
- liquid hydrogen
- theoretical/computational multiphase flows
- cavitation
- cryogenic flooding flow
- cryogenic pump, turbine
