Critical review on local thermal equilibrium and local thermal non-equilibrium approaches for the analysis of forced convective flow through porous media

S Pati, A Borah, MP Boruah, PR Randive - International communications in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Scientific community from the field of thermo-fluidics have focused extensive attention
towards investigating techniques of enhancing the heat transfer in varied thermal systems …

A review study on the modeling of high-temperature solar thermal collector systems

AA Hachicha, BAA Yousef, Z Said… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Concentrated solar power technologies are gaining more attention in the last two decades in
order to replace the conventional power technologies and reduce their environmental …

Thermal performance analysis on a volumetric solar receiver with double-layer ceramic foam

X Chen, XL Xia, XL Meng, XH Dong - Energy Conversion and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Using porous materials has become an effective means to enhance heat transfer. Volumetric
receiver is a key component inside the solar thermal systems. The novel concept using …

Convection–radiation heat transfer in solar heat exchangers filled with a porous medium: homotopy perturbation method versus numerical analysis

M Dehghan, Y Rahmani, DD Ganji, S Saedodin… - Renewable Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The case of combined conduction–convection–radiation heat transfer usually occurred in
solar thermal usages is the aim of the present study. This type of combined heat transfer in …

Thermal performance analyses of porous media solar receiver with different irradiative transfer models

F Wang, J Tan, S Yong, H Tan, S Chu - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2014 - Elsevier
There are two commonly used methods for irradiative transfer problems in porous media: P1
approximation and Rosseland approximation. In this study, the effects of irradiative transfer …

Experiment on the convective heat transfer from airflow to skeleton in open-cell porous foams

X Xia, X Chen, C Sun, Z Li, B Liu - International journal of heat and mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
In order to understand the heat transfer behavior of forced airflow in open-cell porous foam,
a tubular device filled with porous foam is built to conduct the experimental measurement …

Heat transfer analysis of nanofluid based microchannel heat sink

M Zargartalebi, J Azaiez - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
Heat generation in miniature electronic devices is a limiting factor that often adversely affects
device performance. One prominent remedy for this problem is to adopt nanofluid based …

Entropy generation in thermal systems with solid structures–a concise review

M Torabi, K Zhang, N Karimi, GP Peterson - International Journal of Heat …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of thermal systems on the basis of the second law of thermodynamics has
recently gained considerable attention. This is, in part, due to the fact that this approach …

Entropy generation of viscous dissipative nanofluid convection in asymmetrically heated porous microchannels with solid-phase heat generation

TW Ting, YM Hung, N Guo - Energy Conversion and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Nanofluid exhibits great potential in enhancing thermal performance of cooling devices.
From the second-law point of view, we investigate the entropy generation of nanofluid flow in …

Heat transfer in porous medium embedded with vertical plate: Non-equilibrium approach-Part B

GA Quadir, IA Badruddin - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This work is continuation of the paper Part A. Due to large number of results, the paper is
divided into two section with section-A (Part A) discussing the effect of various parameters …