The Effects of Compression and Pore Size Variations on the Liquid Flow Characteristics in Metal Foams

By Kevin Boomsma, Dimos Poulikakos. 2002

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics

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3D numerical simulation of flow and conjugate heat transfer through a pore scale model of high porosity open cell metal foam (2010, background): “Boomsma and Poulikakos [32] 2.”
Sintered porous medium heat sink for cooling of high-power mini-devices (2006, methodology): “Experimental studies on the effect of compression and pore size variations on the liquid flow characteristics and heat transfer have been performed by Boomsma and Poulikakos (2002) and Boomsma et al. (2003a) regarding the initially open-cell metal foam with an average cell diameter of 2.3 mm.”
Simulations of flow through open cell metal foams using an idealized periodic cell structure (2003, methodology): “The range of validity of these two models is dependent on the Reynolds number (Re) of the flow as shown by Kaviany (1995), Boomsma and Poulikakos (2002) , and Antohe et al. (1997).”
Heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage using metal foams embedded within phase change materials (PCMs) (2010, methodology): “However almost all the previous investigations worked on the thermal conduction (Calmidi and Mahajan 1999, Boomsma and Poulikakos 2001, Zhao et al. 2004), forced convection (Lee et al. 1993, Calmidi and Mahajan 2000, Kim et al. 2000, Kim et al. 2001, Hwang et al. 2002, Bhattacharya et al. 2002,…”
Metal foams as compact high performance heat exchangers (2003, methodology): “There currently exist analytical (du Plessis et al., 1994; Diedericks and du Plessis, 1997; Smit and du Plessis, 1999; Lu et al., 1998) and numerical models (Calmidi and Mahajan, 2000; Lage et al., 1996) for the fluid flow and heat transfer in packed beds of spheres and extensive databanks of fluid ”
Metal 3D-printed wick structures for heat pipe application: Capillary performance analysis (2018, methodology): “1m/s [44], where drag becomes important, an approach based on Forchheimer corrections is used [18,45] to predict the pressure drop:”
Thermal radiation in ultralight metal foams with open cells (2004, background): “2) compared to the solid struts of metal foams manufactured via the more expensive investment casting route that are studied in [1–7].”