Promotor: Prof. Dr. J. Walraven
Co-promotor: Dr. A.C. Michels
Beoordelingscommissie: Prof. Dr. W.A.W. Wakeham, Prof. Dr. J. Straub, Prof. Dr. D. Bedeaux, Prof. Dr. J.A. Schouten, Dr. J.P.J. Michels

• Title pages (Full text in pdf format; 8kb)
• Chapter 1 Introduction (Full text in pdf format; 36kb)
  1.1 A Fluid, 1.2 The Critical Point, 1.3 History, 1.4 Motivation, 1.5 Outline of the Thesis
• Chapter 2 Heat transfer in critical fluids (Full text in pdf format; 97kb)
  2.1 The critical state, 2.1.1 Thermodynamic relations, 2.1.2 Power laws, 2.1.3 Transport properties, 2.2 Heating a critical fluid, 2.2.1 Heat transfer equation and the Piston Effect, 2.2.2 Isentropic temperature rise, 2.2.3 Boundary layers and the Piston Effect, 2.2.4 Density changes, 2.3 Bulk temperature induced boundary layers., 2.3.1 Temperature lag, 2.3.2 Excess density, 2.4 Gravity effects, 2.4.1 Density stratification, 2.4.2 Heating a critical fluid, 2.4.3 The two-phase region
• Chapter 3 Experimental Equipment (Full text in pdf format; 134kb)
  3.1 The Critical Point Facility, 3.1.1 Outline of the CPF, 3.1.2 The Thermostat Unit, 3.1.3 A Sample Cell Unit, 3.1.4 The optical, Diagnostics, 3.1.5 The Thermal Control System, 3.1.6 The Experiment Dedicated Equipment, 3.1.7 The Data Handling System
  3.1.8 The automatic timeline program, 3.2 The Laboratory Equipment, 3.3 The Sample Cell Units, 3.3.1 The interferometer unit, 3.3.2 The Spaceflight Sample Cell Unit, 3.3.3 The Sample Cell Unit for refractive index measurements
• Chapter 4 Interferometry (Full text in pdf format; 130kb)
  4.1 Interferograms, 4.1.1 Interference order, 4.1.2 Interferogram analysis, 4.2 Inhomogeneous density fields, 4.2.1 Deviation of Light Rays, 4.2.2 The parabolic approximation, 4.2.3 Influence of the cold walls, 4.3 Shadow evaluation, 4.3.1 The appearance of a shadow, 4.3.2 An alternative procedure
• Chapter 5 Density and refractive index (Full text in pdf format; 52kb)
  5.1 Linearity of n(ñ ) dependence, 5.2 Experimental procedure, 5.3 Meniscus position analysis, 5.4 Results and discussion
• Chapter 6 Heat transfer - Experimental results (Full text in pdf format; 299kb)
  6.1 General results, 6.1.1 Experimental scenario, 6.1.2 The critical temperature, 6.1.3 Heat flows, 6.2 Data analysis, 6.2.1 Temperature and density, 6.2.2 Heating pulses, 6.2.3 Apparent wall properties, 6.3 Piston Effect, 6.3.1 Results and discussion, 6.3.2 Conclusions, 6.4 Thermal diffusivity, 6.4.1 Methods for the determination of the thermal diffusivity, 6.4.2 Results and discussion, 6.4.3 Conclusions, 6.5 Isochoric Specific Heat, 6.5.1 Method of analysis, 6.5.2 Results and discussion, 6.5.3 Conclusions
• Appendix A Temperature profile in boundary layers (Full text in pdf format; 25kb)
• Appendix B The PE near the heater (Full text in pdf format; 31kb)
• Appendix C Time independent integral (Full text in pdf format; 14kb)
• Appendix D Thermistor response (Full text in pdf format; 15kb)
• Appendix E Optical matters (Full text in pdf format; 70kb)
  E.1 The parabolic approximation, E.1.1 Conditions for the parabolic approximation, E.1.2 The accuracy of the parabolic approximation, E.2 CPF Optical details
• Appendix F Lists (Full text in pdf format; 23kb)
  F.1 Nomenclature, F.1.1 Symbols, F.1.2 Greek symbols, F.1.3 Indices, F.2 List of acronyms, F.3 List of tables, F.4 List of figures
• References (Full text in pdf format; 19kb)
• Summary (Full text in pdf format; 10kb)
• Samenvatting (Full text in pdf format; 11kb)
• Nawoord + Index (Full text in pdf format; 12kb)
• Table of Contents (Full text in pdf format; 13kb)
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ISBN 90-5776-021-5