The purpose of this study is to investigate forced convection of air through open cell foams. It can be numerically investigated either by implementing the time efficient macroscopic models or computationally expensive microscopic models. However, during the course of this study, it was observed that the macroscopic models are not sufficient for determining the desired key parameters. Nevertheless, it is still possible that these macroscopic models can be used to design an application accurately with minimum time efforts if the concerned key parameters are already known through other means. Accordingly, in this work, a methodology is developed to determine the desired key parameters by implementing the microscopic models, which are further used into the macroscopic models for designing different applications. To validate the proposed methodology, a set of steady state and transient forced convection experiments were performed for a set of ceramic foams having different pore diameter (10−30 PPI) and porosity (0.79−0.87) for a superficial velocity in the range of 0.5−10 m/s.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:105-qucosa-226330 |
| Date | 15 June 2017 |
| Creators | Vijay, Dig |
| Contributors | TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Maschinenbau, Verfahrens- und Energietechnik, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrich Groß, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrich Groß, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Haase |
| Publisher | Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola" |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:doctoralThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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