As one of the most widely used types of heat exchangers, the shell-and-tube heat exchanger
(STHX) offers the advantages of being low-cost, easy to clean, and highly reliable under …

Two ideal three-dimensional geometries are generated using cylinder-joint and sphere-
subtraction methods, respectively. The former is firstly used to establish simple geometrical …

Metal foam heat exchangers have attracted a great deal of interest in numerous engineering
fields due to their superior thermal capabilities. In the present study, the heat transfer …

A numerical investigation is performed to analyze the high-temperature heat transfer
behavior in a double-pipe heat exchanger filled with open-cell porous foam. The …

Due to its high porosity and large specific surface area, open-cell metal foam is an attractive
material for heat transfer applications. In this article the performance of metal foam heat …

Direct numerical simulation of transport in foam materials can benefit from realistic
representations of the porous-medium geometry generated by employing non-destructive …

Tube bank wrapped with metal foam is a new compact heat exchanger with high specific
surface area. The thermo-hydraulic properties of metal foam is key parameters to determine …

This study presents the correlations of both hydrodynamics and heat transfer in a metal foam
heat exchanger. The present work is focused on the application to dry cooling such as air …

This paper describes a compound porous media model approach for numerical analysis to
investigate the aero-thermal performance and characteristics of a flat top U-tube heat …

Flows in porous media may be modeled using two major classes of approaches:(a) a
macroscopic approach, where volume-averaged semiempirical equations are used to …