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Characterisation of Air flow Through Sintered Metal Foams
Reutter, Oliver and Smirnova, Elena and Sauerhering, Jörg and Angel, Stefanie and Fend, Thomas and Pitz-Paal, Robert (2008) Characterisation of Air flow Through Sintered Metal Foams. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 130 (5). DOI: 10.1115/1.2907419.
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Official URL: http://link.aip.org/link/?JFG/130/051201
Abstract
This study investigates air flow in metallic foams, which are produced by the SlipReactionFoamSintering (SRFS)-process. It was conducted as part of the collaborative research center (SFB) 561 “Thermally Highly Loaded, Porous and Cooled Multi-Layer Systems for Combined Cycle Power Plants”. The flow through a porous medium is analysed by Darcy’s equation with the Dupuit/Forchheimer extension. All measurements can be described very well by this equation and permeability and inertial coefficients are obtained for a large quantity of samples with different base materials and different porosities. A threshold porosity of 70 % is observed, above which the pressure loss starts sinking significantly with porosity. Additionally, it was found, that the permeability was anisotropic. Permeability is lower in the direction of gravity during foaming. Scattering in the data of the permeability and inertial coefficients versus the porosity is observed and discussed.
| Document Type: | Article | ||||||||||||||
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| Title: | Characterisation of Air flow Through Sintered Metal Foams | ||||||||||||||
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| Date: | 25 April 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Fluids Engineering | ||||||||||||||
| Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 130 | ||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1115/1.2907419 | ||||||||||||||
| Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||
| Keywords: | Permeability, Inertial Coefficient, Metal Foams | ||||||||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Energy | ||||||||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Renewable Energies | ||||||||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | E SF - Solar research | ||||||||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Energy | ||||||||||||||
| DLR - Program: | E SF - Solar research | ||||||||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | E - Applikationsentwicklung (old) | ||||||||||||||
| Location: | Köln-Porz | ||||||||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Technical Thermodynamics > Solar Research | ||||||||||||||
| Deposited By: | Dr.-Ing. Thomas Fend | ||||||||||||||
| Deposited On: | 28 Jul 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2010 23:30 |
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