A predictive-corrective process for predicting forced convective heat transfer in heated tubes at supercritical pressures

Accurate prediction of convective heat transfer coefficients for supercritical fluids (including CO2) is still an unsolved problem, owning to the rapid variation of thermal physical properties in pseudo-critical zone. A new approach has been introduced to predict heat transfer in tubes at the vicinity of the pseudo-critical point using the predictive-corrective method (SHTP-PCM). It is based on two dimensionless numbers, which reflect …