Heat transfer performance of metal foam heat sinks subjected to oscillating flow

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 856-863

  Jin, Liwen ^a   Leong, Kai Choong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aluminum foam; Kinetic Reynolds number; Nusselt number; Oscillating flow; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FOAMS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ALUMINUM FOAM; LOCAL TEMPERATURES; OSCILLATING FLOW; OSCILLATING FLOW COOLING SYSTEM;

HEAT SINKS;

EID: 33947211344     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2006.885968     Document Type: Article

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