Dimensionless scaling of heat-release-induced planar shock waves in near-critical CO2

TL;DR

This study uses high-resolution simulations to analyze heat-release-induced shock waves in near-critical CO2, introducing a dimensionless scaling approach that captures wave behavior and resonance phenomena in supercritical conditions.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel dimensionless scaling method for thermoacoustic waves in near-critical CO2, accounting for nonlinear thermodynamics and shock features, validated through detailed simulations.

Findings

Scaling collapses wave intensities across different heat-release rates.

Resonance behavior leads to pressure and temperature amplification.

Long-term decay of waves is reproduced with isothermal boundary conditions.

Abstract

We performed highly resolved one-dimensional fully compressible Navier-Stokes simulations of heat-release-induced compression waves in near-critical CO2. The computational setup, inspired by the experimental setup of Miura et al., Phys. Rev. E, 2006, is composed of a closed inviscid (one-dimensional) duct with adiabatic hard ends filled with CO2 at three supercritical pressures. The corresponding initial temperature values are taken along the pseudo-boiling line. Thermodynamic and transport properties of CO2 in near-critical conditions are modeled via the Peng-Robinson equation of state and Chung's Method. A heat source is applied at a distance from one end, with heat release intensities spanning the range 10^3-10^11 W/m^2, generating isentropic compression waves for values < 10^9 W/m^2. For higher heat-release rates such compressions are coalescent with distinct shock-like features (e.g. non-isentropicity and propagation Mach numbers measurably greater than unity) and a non-uniform post-shock state is present due to the strong thermodynamic nonlinearities. The resulting compression wave intensities have been collapsed via the thermal expansion coefficient, highly variable in near-critical fluids, used as one of the scaling parameters for the reference energy. The proposed scaling applies to isentropic thermoacoustic waves as well as shock waves up to shock strength 2. Long-term time integration reveals resonance behavior of the compression waves, raising the mean pressure and temperature at every resonance cycle. When the heat injection is halted, expansion waves are generated, which counteract the compression waves leaving conduction as the only thermal relaxation process. In the long term evolution, the decay in amplitude of the resonating waves observed in the experiments is qualitatively reproduced by using isothermal boundary conditions.

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