...Youssef Aider; Prashant Singh An experimental investigation was carried out on high porosity metal foams subjected to array jet impingement with an objective to develop enhanced heat transfer configurations. In this study, we propose an integrated thermal management system (TMS) aimed toward...

... author. e-mail:  sandra.boetcher@erau.edu 02 07 2023 07 02 2024 15 03 2024 phase-change material metal foam latent thermal energy storage gradient design porosity gradient optimization The accelerated depletion of fossil fuels caused by the vigorous...

...Tian Xiao; Liu Lu; Chenlei Yu; Sandra K. S. Boetcher; Xiaohu Yang; Moxiao Li; Tian Jian Lu Coating the hollow ligaments of open-cell (fluid-through) metallic foams (MFs) fabricated via the sintering route with a thin layer of graphene can improve the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of the foam...

...K. Kiran Kumar; Banjara Kotresha; Kishan Naik The intention of this paper is to present the numerical analysis of thermal performance and exergy transfer through high porosity metal foams filled partially in a horizontal pipe. The heater is embedded in the pipe's circumference and is assigned...

...Assunta Andreozzi; Bernardo Buonomo; Yogesh Jaluria; Oronzio Manca A numerical study on natural convection in an inclined channel partially filled with open metal foam is investigated in two-dimensional laminar and incompressible and steady-state condition. The upper wall is heated at uniform heat...

...Prakash H. Jadhav; N. Gnanasekaran; D. Arumuga Perumal The intent of the current research work is to emphasize the computational modeling of forced convection heat dissipation in the presence of high porosity and thermal conductivity metallic foam in a horizontal pipe for different regimes...

...Vivek Subramaniam Sambamurthy; Srivatsan Madhavan; Prashant Singh; Srinath V. Ekkad Experimental investigation was carried out to study heat transfer and fluid flow in high porosity (93%) thin metal foams (MFs) subjected to array jet impingement, under maximum and intermediate crossflow exit...

...Prashant Singh; Karthik Nithyanandam; Mingyang Zhang; Roop L. Mahajan High-porosity metal foam (MF) is a popular option for high-performance heat exchangers as it offers significantly higher heat transfer participation area per unit volume compared to other convection enhancement cooling methods...

... of this study is to consider the thermal performance of some innovative arrangements in which only certain parts of the tube are covered by metal foam. The combination of Navier–Stokes and Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer equations is applied to evaluate the flow field. Governing equations are solved using the finite...

... fluid which carries thermal energy to the power block. To address this limitation, LTES embedded with heat pipes and PCM's stored within the framework of porous metal foam that have one to two orders of magnitude higher thermal conductivity than the PCM are considered in the present study. A transient...

... in the J OURNAL OF H EAT T RANSFER . Manuscript received May 23, 2012; final manuscript received January 24, 2013; published online June 6, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Wilson K. S. Chiu. 23 05 2012 24 01 2013 Metal foams are of interest for heat transfer applications because of their high...

... , H. , 2009 , “ Application of High Porosity Metal Foams as Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers to High Heat Load Removal Systems ,” Int. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer , 36 ( 7 ), pp. 674 – 679 . 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2009.03.001 [4] Odabaee , M. , Hooman , K. , and Gurgenci , H...

... dispersion model in comparison to a simpler dispersion model commonly used for metallic foams, particularly at high Péclet numbers and for thicker foam blocks. In this study, we consider three different Prandtl numbers, Pr ∈ { 1 , 5 , 10 } , which cover the range of typical fluids...

... a channel, namely, the case of isothermal hot and cold walls and the case of constant heat flux walls. These exact solutions for the cases of metal foam and air combination reveal that the local thermal equilibrium assumption may hold for the case of isothermal hot and cold walls, but may fail for the case...

...V. Kathare; F. A. Kulacki; Jane H. Davidson Heat transfer measurements for natural convection in superposed metal foam and water layers are reported. Two systems heated at the lower boundary are considered: a water-filled cavity with a foam layer on the heated surface and a water-filled cavity...

...C. Y. Zhao; W. Lu; S. A. Tassou The two-phase flow and boiling heat transfer in horizontal metal-foam filled tubes are experimentally investigated. The results show that the heat transfer is almost doubled by reducing the cell size from 20 ppi to 40 ppi for a given porosity, thanks to more surface...

...Indranil Ghosh High porosity open-cell metal foam is considered to be an attractive choice for compact heat exchanger applications because of its high area density and superior thermal performance. A systematic study has been made in the present article to verify the suitability of the porous...

... heat sinks porous materials porous fins experimental heat transfer metal foam electronics cooling compact heat exchangers Metallic and graphitic foams are commercially available, and they appear to have attractive properties for heat transfer applications. The foam provides...

... 16 10 2008 convection flow through porous media graphite metal foams porous materials convection heat sink metal foam graphite foam Metal and graphite foams are a relatively new class of porous media characterized by having relatively high solid-phase conductivities...

...Indranil Ghosh Forced convection heat transfer in high porosity metal foam, either attached to an isothermal surface or confined between two isothermal plates, has been analyzed, assuming a repetitive simple cubic structure for the foam matrix. The model, in the microscopic level takes account...