Fundamental Research

The Real-Fluid Model (RFM): from real fluid modeling to CCUS applications

The Real-Fluid Model (RFM), developed at IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), is an approach employed in compressible fluid mechanics to describe real fluid flows under complex thermodynamic conditions: high pressures, subcritical, supercritical and transcritical conditions, as well as phase changes. The advantage of the approach lies in the integration of a compressible, multicomponent description of the flow, a real-fluid equation of state (EoS), and a vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) calculation.