Simulations of flow through open cell metal foams using an idealized periodic cell structure

By Kevin Boomsma, Dimos Poulikakos, Yiannis Ventikos. 2003

326 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Polymers and Plastics

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In Computational Mechanics

1. C. T'joen
2. S. Mahjoob
3. Gad Hetsroni
4. A. Jacobi
5. Young-Gil Park
6. A. Sommers
7. X. Han
8. Qin Wang

In Polymers and Plastics

1. C. T'joen
2. Kambiz Vafai
3. C. Caliot
4. M. Gurevich
5. G. Flamant
6. Gad Hetsroni
7. Zhiyong Wu
8. S. Mahjoob

Citations in the corpus

• Numerical simulation of convective heat transfer between air flow and ceramic foams to optimise volumetric solar air receiver performances (2011, methodology): “[34] and Kelvin’s tetrakaidecahedral model [35,36], were used to numerically study the pressure drop, convective heat transfer and radiation heat transfer in foams.”
• A Review of Metal Foam and Metal Matrix Composites for Heat Exchangers and Heat Sinks (2012, background): “[101] considered a representative volume consisting of eight cells (six tetrakaidekahedra and two dodecahedra), scaled to correspond to a pore density”
• High resolution microtomography-based CFD simulation of flow and heat transfer in aluminum metal foams (2014, background): “For instance, we can mention the cubic cells with slender circular [16] or square [17] cylinders, the array of hexagonal cells with square or circular lumps of metal at the intersection of the fibers [18], the tetrakaidecahedron unit cells [19], the truncated tetrakaidecahedron cells with triangular”
• Sintered porous medium heat sink for cooling of high-power mini-devices (2006, methodology): “Closer examination of the determination of thermal and hydraulic parameters was done by Boomsma et al. (2003b) and Boomsma and Poulikakos (2001) by modeling the flow through a porous medium with a well defined structure.”
• A synthesis of fluid and thermal transport models for metal foam heat exchangers (2008, background): “[33] modeled idealized open-cell metal foams based on a fundamental periodic unit of eight cells.”
• 3D numerical simulation of flow and conjugate heat transfer through a pore scale model of high porosity open cell metal foam (2010, methodology): “The basic methodology used in this paper for simulating the open cell metal foam’s topology was used in the past ([21]) in a slightly different approach since a considerably smaller control volume was used for isothermal flow conditions.”
• Experimental and numerical studies of the pressure drop in ceramic foams for volumetric solar receiver applications (2010, methodology): “[40] Boomsma K, Poulikakos D, Ventikos Y.”