Computational study of heat transfer enhancement using porous foams with phase change materials: A comparative review

E Hamidi, PB Ganesan, RK Sharma… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) in thermal energy storage can improve energy efficiency
and sustainability, which notably makes them a potential solution to the problems of energy …

State-of-the-art of pressure drop in open-cell porous foams: review of experiments and correlations

P Kumar, F Topin - Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Foam structures are a class of modern microporous media that possesses high thermal
conductivity, large accessible specific surface area, and high porosities. Nowadays …

Lattice Boltzmann direct numerical simulation of interface turbulence over porous and rough walls

Y Kuwata, K Suga - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2016 - Elsevier
To discuss the turbulent flow physics over porous walls, direct numerical simulation (DNS) of
a porous-walled channel flow at the bulk Reynolds number of 3000 is performed by the …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence over anisotropic porous media

Y Kuwata, K Suga - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
To investigate which component of the anisotropic permeability tensor of porous media
influences turbulence over porous walls, direct numerical simulation of anisotropic porous …

Multiphase flow dynamics in metal foam proton exchange membrane fuel cell

L Zhang, J Liu, S Du, C Zhao - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Porous metal foam holds substantial promise as a material for bipolar plates in high-
performance proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) due to its exceptional …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence over systematically varied irregular rough surfaces

Y Kuwata, Y Kawaguchi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Lattice Boltzmann direct numerical simulation of turbulent open-channel flows over
randomly distributed hemispheres at is carried out to reveal the influence of roughness …

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of the gas-solid adsorption process in reconstructed random porous media

L Zhou, ZG Qu, T Ding, JY Miao - Physical review E, 2016 - APS
The gas-solid adsorption process in reconstructed random porous media is numerically
studied with the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method at the pore scale with consideration of …

Pressure drop in flow across ceramic foams—A numerical and experimental study

W Regulski, J Szumbarski, K Gumowski… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
The unique properties of ceramic foams make them well suited to a range of applications in
science and engineering such as heat transfer, reaction catalysis, flow stabilization, and …

Two-phase flow in porous metal foam flow fields of PEM fuel cells

X Tao, K Sun, R Chen, M Suo, H Liu, Z Che… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Porous metal foam (PMF) flow field is a potential option for proton exchange membrane fuel
cells (PEMFCs) due to its excellent capabilities in gas distribution and water drainage …

Modelling turbulent and dispersion heat fluxes in turbulent porous medium flows using the resolved LES data

K Suga, R Chikasue, Y Kuwata - International Journal of Heat and Fluid …, 2017 - Elsevier
Resolved large eddy simulations (LESs) of turbulent conjugate heat transfer in porous
media are performed by the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for modelling turbulent and …