Contento, Gaetano (2013) Modeling of the morphology and of the heat transfer in open-cell foams. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Item Type: | Tesi di dottorato |
|---|---|
| Resource language: | English |
| Title: | Modeling of the morphology and of the heat transfer in open-cell foams |
| Creators: | Creators Email Contento, Gaetano gaetano.contento@enea.it |
| Date: | 27 March 2013 |
| Number of Pages: | 186 |
| Institution: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: | Ingegneria Industriale |
| Scuola di dottorato: | Ingegneria industriale |
| Dottorato: | Ingegneria dei sistemi meccanici |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 25 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Bozza, Fabio fabio.bozza@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Naso, Vincenzo vinaso@unina.it Bianco, Nicola nicola.bianco@unina.it |
| Date: | 27 March 2013 |
| Number of Pages: | 186 |
| Keywords: | Open-cell foams, morphological model, radiative heat transfer model |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 09 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione > ING-IND/10 - Fisica tecnica industriale Area 09 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione > ING-IND/11 - Fisica tecnica ambientale |
| Aree tematiche (7° programma Quadro): | ENERGIA > Produzione di combustibile rinnovabile ENERGIA > Fonti di energia rinnovabile per il riscaldamento e la refrigerazione |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Apr 2013 09:10 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2014 10:22 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/9144 |
| DOI: | 10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/9144 |
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High porosity open-cell foams are nowadays widely used in a large number of systems. Their thermo-mechanical characteristics are very useful when the efficiency in the heat removing is necessary and so they are used from the power electronic systems to the solar concentration or thermo-chemical applications. The mentioned applications generally imply high temperatures and then, the radiative heat transfer plays a significant role in the heat transfer process that, therefore, must be suitably accounted for. The aim of this work is to improve existing models and develop accurate and user friendly new radiative heat transfer models. It has required a refined morphological modeling of inherently disordered reticulated material, too. The morphology of the actual open-cell foams has been reviewed. Useful correlations among the principal morphological parameters of the foams have been proposed according to the basic unit geometry assumed. Also some new correlations for the prediction of the interfacial surface area per unit volume as a function of the windows diameter and the porosity have been derived. The morphological models herein proposed are compared with experimental data found in the literature and with the existing correlations which are considered and discussed in the thesis. The results are good, particularly, when reference is made to the dependence of the struts cross-section on the porosity. Finally, the radiation heat transfer in open cells foams has been modeled: first by a simplified analytical-numerical method based on a cubic cell, that modified an analytical model taken from the literature; then by an analytical-numerical based on a tetrakaidecahedric cell. The configuration factors have been evaluated both by numerical ray-tracing Monte Carlo method and analytically with a suitable spherical approximation of the tetrakaidecahedron. The models agree well with the experimental results, and work better than a model found in literature and based on a simple cubic representation of the foam unit cell.
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