This article summarizes the phenomena and challenges in regenerative cooling, including
transcritical thermophysical properties, fuel pyrolysis, and surface coking. The …

Carbon deposition is an inevitable phenomenon in regenerative cooling systems using
endothermic hydrocarbon fuels (EHFs), which seriously affects heat transfer performance …

Because of increased heat production or reduction in effective surface area for heat
exclusion, modern electronic equipment typically confronts thermal critical difficulties. This …

The regenerative cooling technique with endothermic reactions is prospective for scramjet
engines, in which the convective heat transfer characteristics are necessary for the thermal …

Hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet is one of the most promising air-breathing propulsion systems
for hypersonic flight, but the wall thermal protection issue strictly limits its maximum flight …

Curved structures are inevitably involved in the regenerative cooling channel of scramjet
engine. In this work, pyrolysis and coking characteristics of supercritical RP-3 aviation …

A new endothermic hydrocarbon fuel with density of 0.851 g/cm 3 (EHF-851) was proposed
taking account of the energy density and heat sink of hydrocarbon fuels for the thermal …

The coupling of pyrolysis and heat transfer of endothermic hydrocarbon fuels (EHFs) plays
an important role in the design of cooling channels for advanced aircrafts. In this work, the …

Pyrolysis and coking of Chinese aviation kerosene RP-3 in a rectangular U-bend tube of
nonuniformly heating was numerically simulated. Discussion was held regarding how the …

Understanding heat transfer to endothermic hydrocarbon fuels (EHFs) with pyrolysis at high
heat flux is a challenging issue for the design of regenerative cooling panels in the fuel …