Scientific community from the field of thermo-fluidics have focused extensive attention
towards investigating techniques of enhancing the heat transfer in varied thermal systems …

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 …

An increasing number of technologies require prediction of unsteady forced convection in
porous media when the inlet flow is unsteady. To gain further insight into this problem, the …

The theoretical investigation of the fully-developed forced convection heat transfer in a
microchannel partially filled with a porous medium core is performed by considering the …

The analytical heat transfer performance study (ie HTP, introduced as the ratio of the heat
transfer rate enhancement to the pressure drop increment) for microchannels enhanced by a …

Open-cell porous metal foams and nanofluids are among the solar absorbers for radiation
absorption in solar collectors. The optical properties of absorbers have an important role in …

Precise prediction of thermal processes is one of the major concerns in the field of heat
transfer and within energy research communities. It has been proven that using LTE (local …

Microreactors for chemical synthesis and combustion have already attracted significant
attention. Exothermic catalytic activity features heavily in these devices and thus advective …

The forced convection flow and heat transfer characteristics in parallel-plate channel
partially filled with metallic foams have been studied analytically. To predict fluid and thermal …

This paper reports a theoretical analysis of heat and mass transfer in the microchannels
partially filled with porous materials and used in thermos-chemical microreactors. A first …