Air flow through compressed and uncompressed aluminum foam: Measurements and correlations

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1004-1012

  Dukhan, Nihad ^a   Picon Feliciano, Ruben ^b   Álvarez Hernández, Ángel R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Metal foam; Permeability; Porous media; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ALUMINUM FOAMS; METAL FOAMS; PORE DENSITIES;

COMPRESSED AIR; FOAMS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 33750076379     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2236132     Document Type: Article

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