Experimental and numerical study of single and two-phase flow and heat transfer in aluminum foams

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 4904-4912

  Li, H Y ^a   Leong, K C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aluminum foam; Single phase flow; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM FOAM; ENERGY EQUATION; FILM BOILING; FLOW BOILING CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER PROCESS; HYSTERESIS EFFECT; LOCAL THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ONSET OF NUCLEATE BOILING; SINGLE- AND TWO-PHASE FLOW; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; TEMPERATURE JUMP; TWO-PHASE MIXTURE MODELS; TWO-PHASE SIMULATION;

ALUMINUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; NUCLEATE BOILING; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 80052151707     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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