Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Cross sections through 10 PPI and 40 PPI Ni metal foam samples with stainless steel skins. The samples are 20 mm wide, with approximately 1.2 mm thick skin. Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Pictures of typical open-cell metal foams with 40 PPI and 10 PPI pore sizes Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Variation of experimentally measured pressure gradient with average fluid velocity in the nickel foam channels. The experimental uncertainty is ±81 Pa/m in the pressure gradient and ±0.06 m/s in fluid flow velocity measurements. Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Friction factor variation with Reynolds number Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Experimentally measured temperatures of (a) the channel wall and (b) the bulk fluid, plotted as a function of the axial distance from the inlet of a 10 PPI nickel foam channel. The heat flux was 3851 ± 64.5 W/m2. The experimental uncertainties are ±2.6 °C in the temperature measurement and ±0.5 mm in the length measurement. Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Convective heat transfer coefficient variation with average fluid flow velocity for nickel foams for varying heat flux. The experimental uncertainty is ±0.06 m/s in the fluid flow velocity measurements, whereas the maximum uncertainty in the heat transfer coefficient is ±13%. Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Convective heat transfer coefficient variation with average fluid flow velocity for copper foams for varying heat flux. The experimental uncertainty is ±0.06 m/s in the fluid flow velocity measurements, whereas the maximum uncertainty in the heat transfer coefficient is ±14%. Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Volumetric heat transfer coefficient variation with average fluid velocity for nickel foams with varying heat flux. The experimental uncertainty is ±0.06 m/s in the fluid flow velocity measurements, whereas the maximum uncertainty in the volumetric heat transfer coefficient is ±9%. Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Volumetric heat transfer coefficient variation with average flow velocity for copper foams with varying heat flux. The experimental uncertainty is ±0.06 m/s in the fluid flow velocity measurements, whereas the maximum uncertainty in the volumetric heat transfer coefficient is ±4%. Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Heat transfer enhancement with 10 PPI nickel and copper foam channels compared to a hollow tube with the same dimensions Figure Legend:
Date of download: 5/28/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Spray Formed Copper and Nickel Foam Heat Exchanger Tubes J. Heat Transfer. 2012;134(6): doi: / Average Nusselt number as a function of the Reynolds, Prandtl, and Darcy numbers for nickel and copper metal foams of 10 and 40 PPI pore densities Figure Legend: