Numerical simulation of convective heat transfer between air flow and ceramic foams to optimise volumetric solar air receiver performances

DOI10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.11.037zbMath1211.80029OpenAlexW1968438053MaRDI QIDQ533248

Cyril Caliot, Gilles Flamant, Zhifeng Wang, Zhi-Yong Wu

Publication date: 2 May 2011

Published in: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.11.037

zbMATH Keywords

porous mediacomputational fluid dynamicslocal volumetric heat transfer coefficientNusselt number correlationtetrakaidecahedral modelvolumetric solar air receiver

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) (k)-(varepsilon) modeling in turbulence (76F60)

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Numerical simulation of natural convection heat transfer in a porous cavity heated from below using a non-Darcian and thermal non-equilibrium model
• Volumetric heat transfer coefficients in solid-fluid porous media: Closure problem, thermal analysis and model improvement with fluid flow
• On the effective thermal conductivity of a three-dimensionally structured fluid-saturated metal foam
• A numerical study of interfacial convective heat transfer coefficient in two-energy equation model for convection in porous media.

This page was built for publication: Numerical simulation of convective heat transfer between air flow and ceramic foams to optimise volumetric solar air receiver performances