期刊
ATI 2013 - 68TH CONFERENCE OF THE ITALIAN THERMAL MACHINES ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION
卷 45, 期 -, 页码 645-652出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.01.069
关键词
microtomography; metal foams; CFD; pressure drop; direct simulation
资金
- MIUR through PRIN [2009TSYPM7_003]
X-ray micro computed tomography (mu-CT), originally developed for non-destructive biomedical imaging, is increasingly being employed in areas as diverse as materials characterization and reverse engineering. The technique employs computer processed X-rays to produce tomographic images or slices of specific regions of the object under investigation. This paper presents a numerical analysis of air flow through four different high-porosity ERG copper foams having different pore sizes (5, 10, 20, and 40 pores per inch, PPI), and approximately the same relative density (6.4-6.6% solid fraction). These samples were scanned with a commercial micro computed tomography scanner at a resolution of 20 mu m, yielding a stack of two-dimensional images. Starting with these two-dimensional images, the real, random structure of the foams was reconstructed and subsequently meshed using the commercial software Simpleware. Meshes thus produced were then exported to FLUENT for simulating the fluid flow through the pore space of the foam samples. The results of mu-CT based CFD computations are compared against experimental measurements of pressure drop that were previously obtained with the same samples. The comparison reveals excellent agreement between the numerical and experimental results, highlighting the accuracy of this novel approach. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. access under CC BY-NC-ND license.
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