Qian Weiyang, Pan Yang, Peng Zhao. Experimental Investigation on Natural Convection Heat Transfer of Porous Media Metal Foam[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2017, 38(2).
DOI:
Qian Weiyang, Pan Yang, Peng Zhao. Experimental Investigation on Natural Convection Heat Transfer of Porous Media Metal Foam[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2017, 38(2). DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4339.2017.02.017.
Experimental Investigation on Natural Convection Heat Transfer of Porous Media Metal Foam
Natural convection heat transfer is experimentally investigated for a porous medium
water-saturated copper foam
in a square cavity. The effects of porosity
pore density (PPI) and angle of inclination on natural convection heat transfer are discussed. The experimental results show that natural convection heat transfer rate increases with the decrease of porosity. For a given porosity
the heat transfer rate is found to be lower at higher pore densities. The Nusselt number decreases with the angle of inclination. According to the theory of similarity