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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 191, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2022.122852
Keywords
Open-cell foam; Bimodal porosity; Replication; Heat transfer; Permeability; Thermal management
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- Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion(AEI)
- European Union (FEDER funds) [MAT2016-77742-C2-2-P, PDC2021-121617-C21]
- Conselleria d'Innovacio, Universitats, Ciencia, i Societat Digital of the Generalitat Valenciana [GVA-COVID19/2021/097]
- Generalitat Valenciana through a Santiago Grisolia grant [GRISOLIA/2017/187]
- University of Alicante [UAFPU2019-33]
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Recent advances in cellular materials for active thermal management involve the integral design of their porous structure. This study develops open-cell aluminum foams with porosities in the range of 0.60-0.76, which contain pores with spherical geometry and a bimodal pore size distribution. The fabrication strategy includes replication method and water dissolution, and the materials are characterized using analytical schemes and computational fluid dynamics simulations.
Recent advances in cellular materials for active thermal management applications involve the integral design of their porous structure. In this work, open-cell aluminum foams with porosities in the range of 0.60-0.76 are developed, containing pores with spherical geometry and a bimodal pore size distribution. The fabrication strategy involves the use of the replication method by infiltration with liquid aluminum of porous preforms formed by packing NaCl spheres of two largely different sizes (7 mm and 1 mm average diameter), which are then removed by water dissolution. The paper describes cellular materials with different proportions of coarse and fine pores. Their detailed characterization by pore volume fraction, pressure drop, permeability, thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficient is supported by analytical schemes. In addition, these materials were characterized under realistic operating conditions using computational fluid dynamics simulations. The material with 67 percent coarse pores and 33 percent fine pores, which has the highest porosity (and thus permeability), has the most appealing heat dissipation properties with the lowest pressure drops, making it an excellent candidate for emerging thermal management applications in electronic systems. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )
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