Research progress of transpiration cooling for aircraft thermal protection

Q Mi, SH Yi, DD Gang, XG Lu, XL Liu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The challenge of aerodynamic heating in hypersonic vehicles becomes more significant as
they reach higher Mach numbers, which poses a major obstacle in aircraft design. The …

The role of porous media in modeling flow and heat transfer in biological tissues

ARA Khaled, K Vafai - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2003 - Elsevier
Flow and heat transfer in biological tissues are analyzed in this investigation. Pertinent
works are reviewed in order to show how transport theories in porous media advance the …

[LIBRO][B] Convection in porous media

DA Nield, A Bejan - 2006 - Springer
By a porous medium we mean a material consisting of a solid matrix with an interconnected
void. We suppose that the solid matrix is either rigid (the usual situation) or it undergoes …

[LIBRO][B] Handbook of porous media

K Vafai - 2015 - books.google.com
This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport,
and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media …

Analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer interfacial conditions between a porous medium and a fluid layer

B Alazmi, K Vafai - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2001 - Elsevier
Different types of interfacial conditions between a porous medium and a fluid layer are
analyzed in detail. Five primary categories of interface conditions were found in the literature …

Applications of nanofluids in porous medium: a critical review

K Khanafer, K Vafai - Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2019 - Springer
This investigation provides a review on the applications of nanofluids in porous media. The
transport phenomena in porous media have been of continuing interest for the past …

A review of metal foam and metal matrix composites for heat exchangers and heat sinks

XH Han, Q Wang, YG Park, C T'Joen… - Heat Transfer …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Recent advances in manufacturing methods open the possibility for broader use of metal
foams and metal matrix composites (MMCs) for heat exchangers, and these materials can …

Critical review on local thermal equilibrium and local thermal non-equilibrium approaches for the analysis of forced convective flow through porous media

S Pati, A Borah, MP Boruah, PR Randive - International communications in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Scientific community from the field of thermo-fluidics have focused extensive attention
towards investigating techniques of enhancing the heat transfer in varied thermal systems …

Sensitivity analysis of the numerical study on the thermal performance of a packed-bed molten salt thermocline thermal storage system

C Xu, Z Wang, Y He, X Li, F Bai - Applied Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, a comprehensive transient, two-dimensional, two-phase model for heat
transfer and fluid dynamics within the packed-bed molten salt thermocline thermal storage …

A synthesis of fluid and thermal transport models for metal foam heat exchangers

S Mahjoob, K Vafai - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2008 - Elsevier
Metal foam heat exchangers have considerable advantages in thermal management and
heat recovery over several commercially available heat exchangers. In this work, the effects …