Experimental characterization of single and two-phase flow through nickel foams

Tailoring the pressure-drop in multi-layered open-cell porous inconel structures

“…Figure 4 presents the length-normalized pressure drop versus Darcian velocity relationship. As expected, the pressure-drop increases with increasing airflow velocity in similar trends to those reported in [2,4,6,7,[10][11][12][13][14], but a third order (rather than second order) polynomial provides a better fit to the data over the entire velocity range. The different regimes can be identified by using a graphical separation method used by Boomsma et al [11] and adopted in many related works [4,6,9,13,15,16].…”

Milli-channel with metal foams under an applied gas–liquid periodic flow: External mass transfer performance and pressure drop

“…They correlated their data following a Lockhart-Martinelli approach and proposed a correlation for the Martinelli parameter X vv . Gerbaux et al [37] also investigated the pressure drop generated by quite thin samples (1.3 mm up to 1.9 mm) and were able to estimate the effect of the wall on single phase pressure drop by considering the Darcy-Forschheimer-Brinkman relationship. The wall effect on pressure drop has been estimated to amount to 7% at most.…”

Compressive property and energy absorption characteristic of open-cell SiCp/AlSi9Mg composite foams

“…The mechanical behaviors of foams are not only dictated by the microstructure of foams (described by relative density, cell shape, cell size, etc.) [2,3], but also dictated by the properties of the cell wall material [4,5]. While the mechanical behavior of cellular metallic materials has been widely studied, researches devoted to properties of the composite foams are limited.…”