Metal Foam Heat Exchangers for Heat Transfer Augmentation from a Cylinder in Cross-Flow

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 911-923

  Odabaee, M ^a   Hooman, K ^a   Gurgenci, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intersection of asymptotes; Metal foam; Numerical; Porous media

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DROPS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; METALS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP;

EXCESS PRESSURE; FINNED TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; HEAT TRANSFER AUGMENTATION; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; LAYER THICKNESS; NUMERICAL; SOLID CYLINDERS;

METAL FOAMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDER; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLUID FLOW; FOAM; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 79251598281     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9664-y     Document Type: Article

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