Abstract The term Carnot Battery refers to thermo-mechanical energy storage technologies
that store electricity in the form of thermal exergy with electricity as the main output. The …

Turbulent flows in porous media occur in a wide variety of applications, from catalysis in
packed beds to heat exchange in nuclear reactor vessels. In this review, we summarize the …

Biomass pyrolysis is a thermochemical conversion process that undergoes a complex set of
concurrent and competitive reactions in oxygen-depleted conditions. A considerable amount …

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 …

Resolved-particle 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are presented of
endothermic steam methane reforming in a random packed bed of 807 spherical catalyst …

Randomly packed bed reactors are widely used in chemical process industries, because of
their low cost and ease of use compared to other packing methods. However, the pressure …

The present paper systematically investigated the appropriateness of different contact point
modification approaches for forced convective heat transfer analysis in structured packed …

Large amounts of high-temperature solid granular (HTSG) materials are produced
throughout the world in metallurgy and building materials industries whose activities are …

In this study, we investigate the transport and transfer properties inside packed beds of
spherical particles by means of CFD simulations. Heat and mass transfer properties have …

Abstract The Immersed Boundary (IB) method proposed by Uhlmann for Direct Numerical
Simulation (DNS) of fluid flow through dense fluid-particle systems is extended to systems …