Highlights•Conduction governs radial heat transfer in metallic honeycombs and open-cell
foams.•Conductive mechanism is superior to convective heat transfer in packed …

Advances in the design of materials for energy storage and conversion (ie,“energy
materials”) increasingly rely on understanding the dependence of a material's performance …

Mass transfer and pressure drop properties of alumina open-cell foams with pore counts
between 10 and 45PPI and porosities between 75% and 85% were studied in connection …

Silicon carbide foams were characterized with respect to their specific surface area as well
as their morphological parameters including strut diameter, window diameter and open …

This paper presents experimental results of pressure drop measurements for different solid
ceramic sponges. In the experiments, the material, pore sizes and porosity were varied …

Periodic open cellular structures (POCS) with ideal cubic cell geometry (icPOCS) were
manufactured via the selective electron beam melting technique (SEBM). Depending on the …

Periodic open-cell foams of ideal tetrakaidecahedron geometry were manufactured by
selective electron beam melting (SEBM) and characterized with respect to the morphological …

An extensive study on morphological parameters of ceramic sponge structures of different
material, porosity, and pores per linear inch (ppi) number was performed. Volume image …

This paper presents a correlation for estimating the pressure drop of single-phase flow
inside ceramic and metal sponges (open celled-foams) based on easily available …

In this contribution, experimental results about heat transfer coefficients for different ceramic
sponges (variation of material, porosity and pore size) are presented. A strong influence of …