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 …

Refractive-index and density matching in concentrated particle suspensions: a review

S Wiederseiner, N Andreini, G Epely-Chauvin… - Experiments in …, 2011 - Springer
Optical measurement techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser Doppler
velocimetry (LDV) are now routinely used in experimental fluid mechanics to investigate …

Spatial fluctuations of fluid velocities in flow through a three-dimensional porous medium

SS Datta, H Chiang, TS Ramakrishnan, DA Weitz - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We use confocal microscopy to directly visualize the spatial fluctuations in fluid flow through
a three-dimensional porous medium. We find that the velocity magnitudes and the velocity …

A review of pebble flow study for pebble bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor

S Jiang, J Tu, X Yang, N Gui - Experimental and Computational …, 2019 - Springer
The pebble bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor is a promising generation-IV reactor,
which uses large fuel pebbles and helium gas as coolant. The pebble bed flow is a …

Past, present, and future of transparent soils

M Iskander, RJ Bathurst… - Geotechnical …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Transparent soils have evolved in the past two decades as a useful tool for the physical
modeling of soil-structure interaction mechanisms, saturated-unsaturated hydraulic …

A review of solid–fluid selection options for optical-based measurements in single-phase liquid, two-phase liquid–liquid and multiphase solid–liquid flows

SF Wright, I Zadrazil, CN Markides - Experiments in Fluids, 2017 - Springer
Experimental techniques based on optical measurement principles have experienced
significant growth in recent decades. They are able to provide detailed information with high …

Experimental investigation of cross flow mixing in a randomly packed bed and streamwise vortex characteristics using particle image velocimetry and proper …

T Nguyen, R Muyshondt, YA Hassan, NK Anand - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The study of flow and heat transfer through porous media or randomly packed beds is
important as these configurations are widely used in many engineering applications, for …

Invited article: Refractive index matched scanning of dense granular materials

JA Dijksman, F Rietz, KA Lőrincz… - Review of Scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We review an experimental method that allows to probe the time-dependent structure of fully
three-dimensional densely packed granular materials and suspensions by means of particle …

Local pore size correlations determine flow distributions in porous media

K Alim, S Parsa, DA Weitz, MP Brenner - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
The relationship between the microstructure of a porous medium and the observed flow
distribution is still a puzzle. We resolve it with an analytical model, where the local …

Intermittent Lagrangian velocities and accelerations in three-dimensional porous medium flow

M Holzner, VL Morales, M Willmann, M Dentz - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Intermittency of Lagrangian velocity and acceleration is a key to understanding transport in
complex systems ranging from fluid turbulence to flow in porous media. High-resolution …