Performance of aluminum and carbon foams for air side heat transfer augmentation

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Garrity, Patrick T ^a   Klausner, James F ^a   Mei, Renwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

heat exchanger performance; heat transfer augmentation; porous foam

Indexed keywords

A-COEFFICIENT; AIR SIDE PERFORMANCE; AIR SIDES; ALUMINUM FOAM; AMBIENT AIR; BULK DENSITY; CARBON FOAM; COMPACT HEAT EXCHANGER; CONSTANT HEAT FLUX; CONTROL PARAMETERS; ELECTRICAL INPUTS; FLOW PASSAGE; FRICTION FACTORS; HEAT EXCHANGER PERFORMANCE; HEAT SOURCES; HEAT TRANSFER AUGMENTATION; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATION; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; MEAN AIR VELOCITY; MODIFIED CARBON; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PER UNIT; PER UNIT VOLUME; POROUS FOAM; POWER DENSITIES; PRESSURE DROP MEASUREMENTS; THERMAL RESISTANCE; TUBE WALLS; TWO-EQUATION; VOLUMETRIC HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM POWDER METALLURGY; ENTHALPY; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; PRESSURE DROP;

FOAMS;

EID: 79952083178     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002172     Document Type: Article

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