Immersed boundary method (IBM) based direct numerical simulation of open-cell solid foams: Hydrodynamics

Microtomography-based numerical simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer in open cell metal foams

(2015) Mohammad Zafari et al.   APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING

Numerical simulation of heat transfer in the near-wall region of tubular reactors packed with metal open-cell foams

(2015) Enrico Bianchi et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Fully resolved simulations of the flow through a packed bed of cylinders: Effect of size distribution

(2015) Ferdaous Dorai et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

Accuracy of Finite Volume/Staggered Grid Distributed Lagrange Multiplier/Fictitious Domain simulations of particulate flows

(2015) Anthony Wachs et al.   COMPUTERS & FLUIDS

Prediction of heat conduction in open-cell foams via the diffuse interface representation of the phase-field method

(2015) A. August et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Performance of randomized Kelvin cell structures as catalytic substrates: Mass-transfer based analysis

(2014) Francesco Lucci et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

Metal foam hydrodynamics: Flow regimes from pre-Darcy to turbulent

(2014) Nihad Dukhan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

A methodology for highly accurate results of direct numerical simulations: Drag force in dense gas–solid flows at intermediate Reynolds number

(2014) Y. Tang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW

Forced convection inside metal foam: Simulation over a long domain and analytical validation

(2014) Ahmed S. Suleiman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES

Long-domain simulation of flow in open-cell mesoporous metal foam and direct comparison to experiment

(2014) Ahmed S. Suleiman et al.   MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS

High resolution microtomography-based CFD simulation of flow and heat transfer in aluminum metal foams

(2013) Paola Ranut et al.   APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING

Heat transfer properties of metal foam supports for structured catalysts: Wall heat transfer coefficient

(2013) Enrico Bianchi et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

An appraisal of the heat transfer properties of metallic open-cell foams for strongly exo-/endo-thermic catalytic processes in tubular reactors

(2012) Enrico Bianchi et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Pressure drop correlation for ceramic and metal sponges

(2012) Benjamin Dietrich   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

Direct numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer in dense fluid–particle systems

(2012) Niels G. Deen et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

Systematic mesh development for 3D CFD simulation of fixed beds: Contact points study

(2012) Anthony G. Dixon et al.   COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

An improved immersed boundary method with direct forcing for the simulation of particle laden flows

(2012) Tobias Kempe et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Fluid dynamic characterisation of porous solids in catalytic fixed-bed reactors

(2012) T. Horneber et al.   MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS

A General Boundary Condition Treatment in Immersed Boundary Methods for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Heat Transfer

(2012) Dartzi Pan   NUMERICAL HEAT TRANSFER PART B-FUNDAMENTALS

Drag law for monodisperse gas–solid systems using particle-resolved direct numerical simulation of flow past fixed assemblies of spheres

(2011) S. Tenneti et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW

Analytical and numerical prediction of heat transfer and pressure drop in open-cell metal foams

(2011) Mo Bai et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES

Monodisperse foams in one to three dimensions

(2010) Wiebke Drenckhan et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

3D numerical simulation of flow and conjugate heat transfer through a pore scale model of high porosity open cell metal foam

(2010) A. Kopanidis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Direct pore-level modeling of incompressible fluid flow in porous media

(2010) Saeed Ovaysi et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Towards a more realistic modeling of solid foam: Use of the pentagonal dodecahedron geometry

(2009) Tri Truong Huu et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

The LS-STAG method: A new immersed boundary/level-set method for the computation of incompressible viscous flows in complex moving geometries with good conservation properties

(2009) Yoann Cheny et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Numerical simulation of laminar flow past a circular cylinder

(2008) B.N. Rajani et al.   APPLIED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING

Pressure drop modeling on SOLID foam: State-of-the art correlation

(2008) David Edouard et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

A versatile sharp interface immersed boundary method for incompressible flows with complex boundaries

(2008) R. Mittal et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Simulation of Thermal Transport in Open-Cell Metal Foams: Effect of Periodic Unit-Cell Structure

(2008) Shankar Krishnan et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME