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  2. Pitchfork bifurcation - Wikipedia

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    Note that subcritical and supercritical describe the stability of the outer lines of the pitchfork (dashed or solid, respectively) and are not dependent on which direction the pitchfork faces. For example, the negative of the first ODE above, x ˙ = x 3 − r x {\displaystyle {\dot {x}}=x^{3}-rx} , faces the same direction as the first picture ...

  3. Supercritical fluid - Wikipedia

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    Typically, supercritical fluids are completely miscible with each other, so that a binary mixture forms a single gaseous phase if the critical point of the mixture is exceeded. However, exceptions are known in systems where one component is much more volatile than the other, which in some cases form two immiscible gas phases at high pressure ...

  4. Critical mass - Wikipedia

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    A numerical measure of a critical mass depends on the effective neutron multiplication factor k, the average number of neutrons released per fission event that go on to cause another fission event rather than being absorbed or leaving the material. A subcritical mass is a mass that does not have the ability to sustain a fission chain reaction ...

  5. Supercritical flow - Wikipedia

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    A supercritical flow is a flow whose velocity is larger than the wave velocity. [clarification needed] The analogous condition in gas dynamics is supersonic speed.According to the website Civil Engineering Terms, supercritical flow is defined as follows: The flow at which depth of the channel is less than critical depth, velocity of flow is greater than critical velocity and slope of the ...

  6. Critical point (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Critical carbon dioxide exuding fog while cooling from supercritical to critical temperature. The existence of a critical point was first discovered by Charles Cagniard de la Tour in 1822 [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and named by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1860 [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and Thomas Andrews in 1869. [ 14 ]

  7. Transcritical cycle - Wikipedia

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    A transcritical cycle is a closed thermodynamic cycle where the working fluid goes through both subcritical and supercritical states. In particular, for power cycles the working fluid is kept in the liquid region during the compression phase and in vapour and/or supercritical conditions during the expansion phase.

  8. Hopf bifurcation - Wikipedia

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    Complex eigenvalues of an arbitrary map (dots). In case of the Hopf bifurcation, two complex conjugate eigenvalues cross the imaginary axis. In the mathematical theory of bifurcations, a Hopf bifurcation is a critical point where, as a parameter changes, a system's stability switches and a periodic solution arises. [1]

  9. Supercritical carbon dioxide - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, it behaves as a supercritical fluid above its critical temperature (304.128 K, 30.9780 °C, 87.7604 °F) [1] and critical pressure (7.3773 MPa, 72.808 atm, 1,070.0 psi, 73.773 bar), [1] expanding to fill its container like a gas but with a density like that of a liquid. Supercritical CO