This book discusses basic thermodynamic behaviors and 'abnormal' properties from a thermo-physical perspective, and explores basic heat transfer and flow properties, the latest findings on their physical aspects and indications, chemical engineering properties, microscale phenomena, as well as transient behaviors in fast and critical environments. It also presents the most and challenging problems and the outlook for applications and innovations of supercritical fluids.

Introduction.- Design and Realization of Near-Critical Transient Visulization Experiment.- Discussion of Near-Critical Heat Transfer Flow Experiments.- Numerical Formulation of Near-Critical CO2 Flow in Microchannels.- Heat Transfer Charicteristics of Near-Critical Microchannel Flows.- Theoretical Analysis of Near Critical Stability Behaviors.- Summary and Outlook.