Exact analytical solutions for the piston effect in supercritical fluids under post-acoustic approximation -- Short-time asymptotics, thermal penetration depth and comparison with the Spacelab D-2 experiments

Mátyás Szücs, Mátyás Szücs

Near the liquid-vapor critical point, fluids become highly compressible, giving rise to a special, strongly coupled thermo-mechanical process: the piston effect. In this phenomenon…