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 …

Different foam metals combined with paraffin and other materials were analyzed to
determine their effective thermal conductivity and the macroscopic thermophysical …

At present, thermal conductivity is usually taken as a constant value in the calculation of
building energy consumption and load. However, in the actual use of building materials …

The effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of composites is of great significance for simulating
the macroscopic heat transfer process. In this paper, an extension of the morphology …

Bio-based thermosetting epoxy foams were synthesized via an epoxide ring opening
reaction of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) with fumaropimaric acid (FPA) by using N, N …

In this paper, a new method for precise evaluation of the effective thermal conductivity (ETC)
caused by moisture transfer inside porous building materials was proposed. Moreover, the …

The Complete liquid-vapour phase change process inside an asymmetrically heated porous
channel has been numerically investigated in this article, based on the Two-Phase Mixture …

This work involves the numerical simulations of two-phase flow inside porous media and the
associated phase change processes in order to investigate the effects of thermal dispersion …

In this article, the fully boiling process inside pipe filled with porous media has been
numerically investigated using Cu/water nanofluid. Two-Phase Mixture Model (TPMM) has …

Heat transfer in metal foams is one of the fields of particular research interest due to the
possibility of imparting tailored effective thermo-physical properties for various applications …