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Thermal fluid dynamic analysis of 3D printable metal foams.
Rel. Luca Bergamasco, Andrea Ferrero, Matteo Fasano. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Aerospace Engineering, 2024
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This study presents a numerical investigation of the pressure drop per unit length and the heat transfer coefficient in 3D printable open-cell metal foams. The ultimate goal is to derive new correlations that allow the prediction of the thermal fluid dynamic performance of the cell using the topological characteristics of the cells and the fluid conditions. The data set included 18 different cell types, each with six different elongations along the flow direction and five porosities, resulting in a total of 540 simulations. The geometries were defined by using the coordinates of the vertices of their ligaments and a connectivity matrix that stored the connections between the different points.
The numerical simulations were carried out in laminar flow regime with a constant heat flux boundary condition and air as the working fluid
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