Thermal conductivity and thermal contact resistance of metal foams

Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2009, HT2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 355-365

  Sadeghi, Ehsan ^a   Djilali, Nedjib ^a   Bahrami, Majid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CROSS-SECTION GEOMETRY; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LOW COSTS; LOW DENSITY; METAL FOAMS; MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; MODEL PREDICTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; THERMAL CONTACT RESISTANCE; UNIT CELLS; VOLUME RATIO;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT RESISTANCE; FLUIDICS; FOAMS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; LIGAMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOANALYSIS;

METALS;

EID: 77952963070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/HT2009-88557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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