Natural convection investigations in porous Phase Change Materials

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 769-772

  Tian, Y ^a   Zhao, C Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heat transfer enhancement; Metal foams; PCMs; Porosity; Two equation model

Indexed keywords

FLOW RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; HIGH POTENTIAL; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH VISCOSITIES; LOW THERMAL EXPANSION; METAL FOAMS; PCMS; TWO-EQUATION MODEL;

HEAT CONDUCTION; METALS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; POROSITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

FOAMS;

EID: 84857254621     PISSN: 19414900     EISSN: 19414919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/nnl.2011.1262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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