Phase change materials (PCMs) have been considered suitable energy materials to
address the mismatch between energy demand and supply to improve the utilization …

Curtailing the ever-increasing global energy demand remains an arduous challenge. The
US Energy Information Administration emphasized that the deployment of new heat …

Open cell metal foams are good candidates for augmenting the thermal performance of heat
sinks and compact heat exchangers, with the added benefits of lighter and more compact …

Abstract Image-Based Simulation (IBSim) is the process by which a digital representation of
a real geometry is generated from image data for the purpose of performing a simulation …

Material properties and oxidation behavior of low-density felts used as substrates for
conformal carbon/phenolic ablators were compared with those of a rigid carbon fiber …

Heat exchangers embedded with metal foam are drawing increasing attention in the thermal
application field, due to the performance of low density, large ratio of surface area to volume …

In this work, thermal transport process of open-cell metal foam/paraffin composite (MFPC)
with solid-liquid phase change is experimentally investigated. The benchmark data …

This paper investigates the anisotropy of coal under uniaxial compression conditions using
both experimental and numerical methods. Primary wave (P-wave) velocity measurements …

Effective thermal conductivity is considered one of the most important parameters in the
characterization of insulating materials. The effective thermal conductivity of open-cell …

Methanol steam reforming has been used for in-situ hydrogen production and supply for
proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), while its power density and energy efficiency …