Computational study of heat transfer enhancement using porous foams with phase change materials: A comparative review

E Hamidi, PB Ganesan, RK Sharma… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) in thermal energy storage can improve energy efficiency
and sustainability, which notably makes them a potential solution to the problems of energy …

Lattice Boltzmann methods for single-phase and solid-liquid phase-change heat transfer in porous media: A review

YL He, Q Liu, Q Li, WQ Tao - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past 30 years, the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method has been developed into a
versatile and powerful numerical methodology for computational fluid dynamics and heat …

Review on thermal transport in high porosity cellular metal foams with open cells

CY Zhao - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2012 - Elsevier
Thermal transport in metal foams has received growing attention in both academic research
and industrial applications. In this paper the recent research progress of thermal transport in …

Research progress on flow and heat transfer characteristics of fluids in metal foams

H Hu, Y Zhao, Y Li - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Open-cell metal foam has a great potential for manufacturing compact heat exchangers in
energy conservation systems due to the advantages of large specific surface area and high …

Pore-scale simulation of non-Newtonian power-law fluid flow and forced convection in partially porous media: Thermal lattice Boltzmann method

R Mohebbi, AA Delouei, A Jamali, M Izadi… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, the two-dimensional forced convection heat transfer of non-Newtonian power-
law fluid flow between two parallel plates filled with partially porous media is studied …

Lattice Boltzmann Method simulation of flow and forced convective heat transfer on 3D micro X-ray tomography of metal foam heat sink

E Hamidi, P Ganesan, SV Muniandy… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fluid flow and thermal distribution in isothermal forced convection heat transfer through
metal foams are studied. The true geometry of the metal foam samples are obtained by …

Magnetic regulating the phase change process of Fe3O4-paraffin wax nanocomposites in a square cavity

Y Hu, L Shi, Z Zhang, Y He, J Zhu - Energy Conversion and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The addition of external force provides an alternative way to promote the application of
phase change materials in thermal-energy storage, space heating, and cooling systems …

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of gas–solid adsorption processes at pore scale level

L Zhou, ZG Qu, L Chen, WQ Tao - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
A two-dimensional lattice Boltzmann (LB) approach was established to implement kinetic
concentration boundary conditions in interfacial mass-transfer processes and to simulate the …

Thermal conductivity of micro/nano-porous polymers: Prediction models and applications

H Yu, H Zhang, J Zhao, J Liu, X Xia, X Wu - Frontiers of Physics, 2022 - Springer
Micro/nano-porous polymeric material is considered a unique industrial material due to its
extremely low thermal conductivity, low density, and high surface area. Therefore, it is …

Lattice Boltzmann method for heat transfer in phase change materials: a review

S Kumar, D Panda, P Ghodke… - Journal of Thermal …, 2023 - Springer
Over the years, incredible evolution has been framed in developing particle-induced
discrete simulation techniques over conventional continuum approaches. In particular, the …