Thermal analysis on metal-foam filled heat exchangers. Part I: Metal-foam filled pipes

By W. Lu, Changying Zhao, S. Tassou. 2006

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Correlations for the pressure drop for flow through metal foam (2006, background): “Lu et al. (2006) presented an analytical study of the heat transfer and pressure drop for metal foam-filled pipes.”
Experimental and numerical studies of the pressure drop in ceramic foams for volumetric solar receiver applications (2010, background): “[7] Lu W, Zhao CY, Tassou SA.”
Heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage using metal foams embedded within phase change materials (PCMs) (2010, background): “…1993, Calmidi and Mahajan 2000, Kim et al. 2000, Kim et al. 2001, Hwang et al. 2002, Bhattacharya et al. 2002, Zhao et al 2004, Zhao et al 2005, Phanikumar and Mahajan 2002, Zhao et al. 2006, Lu et al. 2006), thermal radiation (Zhao et al. 2004) and flow boiling heat transfer (Zhao et al. 2009).”
A synthesis of fluid and thermal transport models for metal foam heat exchangers (2008, background): “Three different heat exchangers can be modeled with these correlations: the case where the inner tube of the heat exchanger is filled by the metal foam [41]; the case where the inner tube is surrounded by a metal foam [67]; and the case where the inner tube is filled and surrounded by metal foams [4”