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Experimental determination of the volumetric heat transfer coefficient between stream of air and ceramic foam
L.B. Younis,R. Viskanta +1 more
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In this article, an experimental investigation is described that characterizes heat transfer between a heated air stream and ceramic foam, and an apparatus is designed to determine the volumetric heat transfer coefficient between the foam and a stream of air using a single blow transient technique.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 1993-01-01. It has received 284 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ceramic foam & Heat transfer coefficient.read more
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A review of studies on central receiver solar thermal power plants
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the most important studies on the major components of central receiver solar thermal power plants including the heliostat field, the solar receiver and the power conversion system.
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Combustion of hydrocarbon fuels within porous inert media
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the porous matrix on reaction rates, flammability limits, and flame stabilization are investigated for both single-stage and multi-stage burners.
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Review on thermal transport in high porosity cellular metal foams with open cells
TL;DR: In this paper, the state-of-the-art knowledge and research results of thermal transport in open celled cellular metal foams, which covers the effective thermal conductivity, forced convection, natural convection and thermal radiation, pool boiling and flow boiling heat transfer, solid/liquid phase change heat transfer and catalytic reactor were provided.
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Fundamentals and applications of structured ceramic foam catalysts
TL;DR: The use of ceramic foams as structured catalyst supports has been extensively studied in the past decade as discussed by the authors, and many applications involving important reactions have appeared in the open and patent literature, especially for catalytic processes that suffer certain limitations.
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Measurement of interstitial convective heat transfer and frictional drag for flow across metal foams
TL;DR: In this article, the combined effects of foam porosity (e=0.7, 0.8, and 0.95) and flow Reynolds number (1900≤Re≤7800) were examined.
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Describing the Uncertainties in Experimental Results
TL;DR: The material presented in this paper covers the method of describing the uncertainties in an engineering experiment and the necessary background material, as well as a technique for numerically executing uncertainty analyses when computerized data interpretation is involved.
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Heat transfer: A liquid flowing through a porous prism
TL;DR: The problem of finding the temperature distributions has been solved assuming the well-known laws governing the transfer of heat from a liquid in turbulent motion to a solid and the use of some interesting mathematical functions which are related to theWell-known Bessel Functions.
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Theoretical prediction of effective heat transfer parameters in packed beds
TL;DR: In this article, a theory for predicting the effective axial and radial thermal conductivities and the apparent wall heat transfer coefficient for fluid flow through packed beds is derived from a two-phase continuum model containing the essential underlying and independently measurable heat transfer processes.
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Heat transfer and axial dispersion in packed beds
D.J. Gunn,J.F.C. De Souza +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the thermal frequency response of beds packed with glass and metallic particles has been measured in the range of Reynolds numbers from 0·05 to 330 values of the coefficients of axial dispersion of heat, intraparticle thermal conductivity and fluid-particle heat transfer coefficients have been found by non-linear regression.
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Heat Transfer From a Gas Stream to a Bed of Broken Solids
TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive program of research of the iron blast furnace which the Bureau of Mines is conducting in the laboratory and in the field is described. But the study of heat transfer is not discussed.