State-of-the-art in heat exchanger additive manufacturing

I Kaur, P Singh - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
The progress in additive manufacturing (AM) sector has transformed the ways in which heat
exchangers (HXs) can be fabricated. The complex and freeform designs which could not be …

A review of recent investigations on flow and heat transfer enhancement in cooling channels embedded with triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS)

K Yeranee, Y Rao - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) have shown better mechanical performance, mass
transfer, and thermal conductivity than conventional and strut-based structures, which have …

Critical evaluation of additively manufactured metal lattices for viability in advanced heat exchangers

I Kaur, P Singh - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
The advantages offered by the stochastic metal foams when used in high-performance
compact heat exchangers is evident in the open literature. Recently, there has been a surge …

On the effective thermal conductivity of aluminum metal foams: Review and improvement of the available empirical and analytical models

P Ranut - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Open cell metal foams are good candidates for augmenting the thermal performance of heat
sinks and compact heat exchangers, with the added benefits of lighter and more compact …

Characteristics of effective thermal conductivity of porous materials considering thermal radiation: A pore-level analysis

M Luo, C Wang, J Zhao, L Liu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Porous materials have attracted considerable attention in the fields of heat transfer and solar
energy harvesting. Due to the complicated pore structures and multiple reflections of …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in porous volumetric solar receivers and enhancement of volumetric absorption

YL He, S Du, S Shen - Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Porous volumetric solar receivers are one type of solar receivers that can volumetrically
absorb solar radiation and achieve efficient solar-to-thermal energy conversion. Porous …

Pore-scale fluid flow and conjugate heat transfer study in high porosity Voronoi metal foams using multi-relaxation-time regularized lattice Boltzmann (MRT-RLB) …

R Paknahad, M Siavashi, M Hosseini - International Communications in …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate pore-scale flow and conjugate heat transfer in high-porosity
open-cell metal foams. Five representative elementary volume (REV) samples with different …

Effective thermal conductivity of high porosity open-cell metal foams

H Yang, Y Li, Y Yang, D Chen, Y Zhu - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a model for effective thermal conductivity of high porosity open-cell metal
foams is developed by assuming the foam morphology as 3D tetradecahedron structure …

Radiative properties modeling of open cell solid foam: Review and new analytical law

S Cunsolo, R Coquard, D Baillis, N Bianco - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, a number of analytical and numerical models have been dedicated to
characterization of radiative properties of open-cell foams. In the current study, a review of …

Digital twin of a laser flash experiment helps to assess the thermal performance of metal foams

A Lunev, A Lauerer, V Zborovskii, F Léonard - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal foams are a class of materials with immense potential. The complex topology in these
lightweight systems is responsible for their outstanding mechanical and thermal properties …