
CFD STUDY OF SELECTED FLUID AND THERMAL CHARACTERISTIC IN OPEN-CELL METAL FOAM ELEMENT FOR SOLAR THERMAL APPLICATIONS
(STEF92 Technology, 2017-06-20, Martin Beer, Doc. Radim Rybar, Jan Kosco)
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The present paper deals with the study of fluid and thermal characteristics of the metal foam with an open cell structure for use in solar thermal applications. The study of selected parameters was performed using CFD tools based on finite volume method calculation in software Ansys Fluent. Presented simulation was carried out on two types of metal foam elements with a density of pores of 10 and 20 PPI, which were designed and modeled by the authors using CAD tools. The basis of a model formed tetrakaidecahedron s...

