Review on thermal transport in high porosity cellular metal foams with open cells

Thermal transport in metal foams has received growing attention in both academic research and industrial applications. In this paper the recent research progress of thermal transport in metal foams has been reviewed. This paper aims to provide the comprehensive state-of-the-art knowledge and researc...

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Published inInternational journal of heat and mass transfer Vol. 55; no. 13-14; pp. 3618 - 3632
Main Author Zhao, C.Y.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2012
Elsevier
Subjects
Applied sciences
Boiling
Cellular
Energy
Energy. Thermal use of fuels
Exact sciences and technology
Forced convection
Heat transfer
Liquid phases
Materials and auxiliary equipments used in energy engineering
Metal foams
Porous media
Theoretical studies. Data and constants. Metering
Thermal conductivity
Thermal radiation
Thermal transport
Transport
Metal foams
Porous media
Thermal transport
Thermal radiation
Cell structure
Effective thermal conductivity
Forced convection
Flow boiling
Heat radiation
Volume boiling
Porous medium
Metal foam
Natural convection
Review
Heat transfer
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Summary:Thermal transport in metal foams has received growing attention in both academic research and industrial applications. In this paper the recent research progress of thermal transport in metal foams has been reviewed. This paper aims to provide the comprehensive state-of-the-art knowledge and research results of thermal transport in open celled cellular metal foams, which covers the effective thermal conductivity, forced convection, natural convection, thermal radiation, pool boiling and flow boiling heat transfer, solid/liquid phase change heat transfer and catalytic reactor. The forced convection and thermal conductivity have been extensively investigated, while less research were performed on two-phase (boiling and solid/liquid phase change heat transfer) and thermal radiation in metal foams. Also most research still treats the metal foam as one type of effective continuous porous media, very few researchers investigated the detailed thermal behaviours at the pore level either by numerical or experimental approaches.
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ISSN:0017-9310
1879-2189
DOI:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.03.017