Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer in Binary Mixtures at Supercritical Pressures (eBook)

Supercritical pressure fluids have been exploited in many engineering fields, where binary mixtures are frequently encountered. This book focuses on the coupled heat and mass transfer in them, where the coupling comes from cross-diffusion effects (i.e., Soret and Dufour effects) and temperature-dependent boundary reactions. Under this configuration, three main topics are discussed: relaxation and diffusion problems, hydrodynamic stability, and convective heat and mass transfer. This book reports a series of new phenomena, novel mechanisms, and an innovative engineering design in hydrodynamics and transport phenomena of binary mixtures at supercritical pressures. This book covers not only current research progress but also basic knowledge and background. It is very friendly to readers new to this field, especially graduate students without a deep theoretical background.

Dr. Zhan-Chao Hu obtained his Ph.D. degree at Peking University in 2020. He is now an assistant professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sun Yat-sen University.  During 2017-2018, he had been a visiting scholar at Northwestern University. His research interests cover fundamental fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, with particular emphasis on non-ideal fluids and extreme conditions. He has been granted the Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award at Peking University and Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

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Supercritical pressure fluids have been exploited in many engineering fields, where binary mixtures are frequently encountered. This book focuses on the coupled heat and mass transfer in them, where the coupling comes from cross-diffusion effects (i.e., Soret and Dufour effects) and temperature-dependent boundary reactions. Under this configuration, three main topics are discussed: relaxation and diffusion problems, hydrodynamic stability, and convective heat and mass transfer. This book reports a series of new phenomena, novel mechanisms, and an innovative engineering design in hydrodynamics and transport phenomena of binary mixtures at supercritical pressures. This book covers not only current research progress but also basic knowledge and background. It is very friendly to readers new to this field, especially graduate students without a deep theoretical background.