Potentials of porous materials for energy management in heat exchangers–A comprehensive review

S Rashidi, MH Kashefi, KC Kim, O Samimi-Abianeh - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Heat exchangers are recognized as popular thermal devices with various and important
applications in industrial energy systems. Many techniques were employed in order to …

Application of porous metal foam heat exchangers and the implications of particulate fouling for energy-intensive industries

STW Kuruneru, K Vafai, E Sauret, YT Gu - Chemical Engineering Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Curtailing the ever-increasing global energy demand remains an arduous challenge. The
US Energy Information Administration emphasized that the deployment of new heat …

A review on thermal application of metal foam

K Chen, LJ Guo, H Wang - Science China Technological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Heat exchangers embedded with metal foam are drawing increasing attention in the thermal
application field, due to the performance of low density, large ratio of surface area to volume …

Kelvin-cell-based metal foam heat exchanger with elliptical struts for low energy consumption

C Moon, HD Kim, KC Kim - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Conventional Kelvin-cell-based metal foam (KMF) has triangular or circular struts. This study
proposes a KMF with elliptical struts instead of such struts. Two schemes of transforming a …

Evaluation of thermal and fluid dynamic performance parameters in aluminum foam compact heat exchangers

B Buonomo, A di Pasqua, O Manca… - Applied Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the behavior of heat exchangers with metal foam. A numerical study in
a laminar steady state two-dimensional model is provided to evaluate the thermal-fluid …

Simulation of forced convective heat transfer in Kelvin cells with optimized skeletons

M Sun, L Yang, C Hu, J Zhao, D Tang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The optimization of pore structure for metal foam is a feasible method for reducing the
pressure drop and improving the overall heat transfer performance, especially at high …

Performance evaluation of metal-foam baffle exhaust heat exchanger for waste heat recovery

T Chen, G Shu, H Tian, T Zhao, H Zhang, Z Zhang - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel metal-foam baffle cut shell and tube heat exchanger for waste heat
recovery system is presented to recover heat in the exhaust gas. A 3D numerical model is …

Forced convection heat transfer in porous structure: effect of morphology on pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient

J Zhao, M Sun, L Zhang, C Hu, D Tang, L Yang… - Journal of thermal …, 2021 - Springer
A light-weight structure with sufficient mechanical strength and heat transfer performance is
increasingly required for some thermal management issues. The porous structure with the …

Metallic foam with cross flow heat exchanger: A review of parameters, performance, and challenges

AM Hassan, AA Alwan, HK Hamzah - Heat Transfer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The cross‐flow heat exchanger involves a tractor moving between two fluids that flow in a
direction perpendicular to each other, and one of the fluids is often a liquid and the other is a …

Heat transfer characteristics of a circular cylinder covered by a porous layer undergoing vortex-induced vibration

E Ebrahimi, Y Amini, G Imani - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, heat transfer characteristics of an elastically-mounted circular cylinder wrapped
by a porous layer are studied numerically. The vibration of the cylinder is modeled as a …