کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
661840 1458150 2008 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Modeling and prediction of the effective thermal conductivity of random open-cell porous foams
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی شیمی جریان سیال و فرایندهای انتقال
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Modeling and prediction of the effective thermal conductivity of random open-cell porous foams
چکیده انگلیسی

Although highly desirable, accurate prediction of the effective thermal conductivity of high-porosity open-cell porous foam materials has remained to be a challenging problem. Aiming at this thorny obstacle, we have developed a random generation-growth method to reproduce the microstructures of open-cell foam materials via computer modeling, and then solve the energy transport equations through the complex structure by using a high-efficiency lattice Boltzmann method in this contribution. The effective thermal conductivities of open-cell foam materials are thus numerically calculated and the predictions are compared with the existing experimental data. Since the porosity is high, the predicted thermal conductivity caused by thermal conduction is lower than the measured data when the thermal conductivity of either component is very low and the radiation heat transfer is non-negligible. After considering the radiation effect, the numerical predictions agree rather well with the experimental data. The radiation influence is diminishing as the material porosity decreases. In general the effective thermal conductivity of open-cell foam materials is much higher than that of granular materials of the same components due to the enhanced heat transfer by the inner netlike morphology of the foam materials.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer - Volume 51, Issues 5–6, March 2008, Pages 1325–1331
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