Metal foams as compact high performance heat exchangers

K Boomsma, D Poulikakos, F Zwick - Mechanics of materials, 2003 - Elsevier
Open-cell metal foams with an average cell diameter of 2.3 mm were manufactured from
6101-T6 aluminum alloy and were compressed and fashioned into compact heat …

An investigation of the PEM fuel cells performance with partially restricted cathode flow channels and metal foam as a flow distributor

E Afshari, M Mosharaf-Dehkordi, H Rajabian - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present work, the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells is studied for
three cases; A fuel cell with two parallel flow channels (model A), locally baffle restricted flow …

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 …

A lattice Boltzmann study of viscous coupling effects in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media

AG Yiotis, J Psihogios, ME Kainourgiakis… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2007 - Elsevier
In the present paper we study the immiscible two-phase flow in porous media using the
lattice Boltzmann model proposed by He et al.[X. He, R. Zhang, S. Chen, GD Doolen, Phys …

Air‐filled porosity and permeability relationships during solid‐state fermentation

TL Richard, AHM Veeken, V De Wilde… - Biotechnology …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
An experimental apparatus was constructed to measure the structural parameters of organic
porous media, i., e. mechanical strength, air‐filled porosity, air permeability, and the Ergun …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulence modeling for flows in wall bounded porous media: an analysis based on direct numerical simulations

Y **, AV Kuznetsov - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Various models are available for simulating turbulent flows in porous media. Models based
on the eddy viscosity assumption are often adopted to close the Reynolds stress term. In …

Quantification of non‐Darcian flow observed during packer testing in fractured sedimentary rock

PM Quinn, JA Cherry, BL Parker - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
High‐precision straddle packer tests were conducted in boreholes in a fractured dolostone
aquifer using constant rate injection (Q) step tests to identify the conditions of change from …

Characterizing the relationship between non‐Darcy effect and hydraulic aperture in rough single fractures

K **ng, J Qian, H Ma, Q Luo… - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic aperture (eh) which is independent of inertial effect has been widely used as an
important parameter to study the geometric properties of single fractures in previous studies …

Equivalent particle diameter and length scale for pressure drop in porous metals

N Dukhan, P Patel - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2008 - Elsevier
The internal architecture of metal foam is significantly different from that of traditional porous
media. This provides a set of challenges for understanding the fluid flow in this relatively …

Removal of coagulant aluminum from water treatment residuals by acid

T Okuda, W Nishijima, M Sugimoto, N Saka, S Nakai… - Water research, 2014 - Elsevier
Sediment sludge during coagulation and sedimentation in drinking water treatment is called
“water treatment residuals (WTR)”. Polyaluminum chloride (PAC) is mainly used as a …