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Thermal dispersion in a porous medium
C.T. Hsu,Ping Cheng +1 more
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The thermal dispersion conductivity tensor for convection in a porous medium is derived based on the method of volume averaging of the velocity and temperature deviations in the pores.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 1990-08-01. It has received 619 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reynolds number & Reynolds equation.read more
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Forced Convection in High Porosity Metal Foams
V. V. Calmidi,Roop L. Mahajan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental and numerical study of forced convection in high porosity (e∼0.89-0.97) metal foams was conducted using air as the fluid medium.
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Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method for heat transfer in a composite slab with the Galerkin method and the Finite Element Method (FEM) to solve the heat transfer problem.
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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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Analysis of Flow in Fractal Porous Media
TL;DR: Fractal geometry and technique have the potentials in analysis of flow and transport properties in fractal porous media as mentioned in this paper, and they have been used extensively in the past few decades.
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Macroscopic turbulence modeling for incompressible flow through undeformable porous media
TL;DR: In this article, a mathematical model for turbulent flow in porous media following the second path, or say, space-integrating the equations for turbulent flows in clear fluid is presented.
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Heat and mass transfer in packed beds
Donald A. Plautz,H. F. Johnstone +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, mass diffusivities, effective thermal conductivities, and wall heat transfer coefficients were measured in an 8-in. tube packed with 1/2-and 3/4in. glass spheres.
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Diffusion and dispersion in porous media
TL;DR: In this article, the dispersion equation for a single, nonreacting, nonadsorbing species is derived for incompressible, laminar flow in anisotropic porous media.
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A derivation of the equations for multi-phase transport
TL;DR: In this paper, a general form of the equations for multi-phase transport is derived and applied to the particular case of mass transport, with particular attention paid to the proper allocation of the transport mechanisms between convection and diffusion.
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Convective flow and heat transfer in variable-porosity media
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of variable porosity and inertial forces on convective flow and heat transfer in porous media were analyzed and a numerical scheme for the solution of the governing equations was proposed to investigate the variable-porosity effects on the velocity and temperature fields inside the porous medium.