This paper presents a review of the literature describing the packing structure and effective
thermal conductivity of randomly packed beds consisting of mono-sized particles. In this …

Over the past decade, DEM-based simulation has become a promising alternative to
physical measurements of thermal particulate systems. Despite their rapid advancement and …

Based on a lumped-parameter method, algebraic expressions for the stagnant thermal
conductivity of some two-dimensional and three-dimensional spatially periodic media are …

Heat transport in tree-like bifurcation networks has been widely studied in various fields. In
this work, we investigate heat conduction in the dual porous media embedded with …

The Effective thermal conductivity (k eff) is one of the key thermal properties for packed beds
in the presence of a stagnant fluid. In this study, a thermal discrete element model (DEM) …

In this paper, the Fractal-Monte Carlo has been employed to simulate the effective thermal
conductivity of porous media with roughened surfaces. The proposed probability model for …

Thermal conduction in porous media has received wide attention in science and
engineering in the past decades. Previous models of the effective thermal conductivity of …

A generalized model for the effective thermal conductivity of porous media is derived based
on the fact that statistical self-similarity exists in porous media. The proposed model …

Dispersion is a well-known phenomenon in porous media primarily for heat and mass
transfer. Like viscosity in momentum transfer, heat conductivity in heat transfer, and diffusion …

Several types of fractals are generated to model the structures of porous media, and heat
conduction in these structures is simulated by the finite volume method (FVM). The …