Porous ceramic foams are used to achieve high performance in solar heat recovery systems.
Understanding the convective heat transfer between the air flow and the ceramic foam is of …

Ceramic foams are promising materials for the absorber of volumetric solar air receivers in
concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) receivers. The macroscopic temperature …

This investigation used wind information from a meteorological station to conduct a CFD
study of wind distribution in an urban configuration. The study treated the computational …

The micro-combustor is a major component of the micro thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system. In
order to improve the stability of combustion and efficiency of the micro-TPV conversion …

A CFD study explored the use of wind information from a meteorological station to simulate
wind distribution in an urban community, where the station may be located far away from the …

Convective heat transfer in turbulent flow in porous media is, in general, less understood
compared to laminar and creeping flows. It is broadly integrated into industrial applications …

Micro combustion stabilization is challenged by the large heat loss ratio, and the operating
conditions are narrow because of the small combustor size. In this work, experimental tests …

A three-dimensional numerical and experimental study on methane-oxygen combustion has
been conducted in a small scale porous-media cylindrical combustor which aims at …

This work delved into porous media combustion (PMC) TPV with H 2/O 2 as fuel with much
focus on experiment and numerical assessment of the TPV generator. The effects of some …

Steam generator (SG), as the primary-to-secondary heat exchanger and pressure boundary
of primary loop, should be integrated and perform well in heat transfer ability. Flow …