...G. Buonanno; A. Carotenuto, Prof. Mem. ASME; G. Giovinco; N. Massarotti The upper and lower bounds of the effective thermal conductivity of packed beds of rough spheres are evaluated using the theoretical approach of the elementary cell for two-phase systems. The solid mechanics and thermal...

..., 2000; revision received October 12, 2001. Associate Editor: R. D. Skocypec. 15 December 2000 12 October 2001 11 09 2002 radiative transfer heat radiation Heat Transfer High Temperature Modeling Packed Beds Participating Media Porous Media Properties Radiation...

...J. Jiang; Y. Hao; Y.-X. Tao To improve the understanding of convective melting of packed solid particles in a fluid, an experimental investigation is conducted to study the melting characteristics of a packed bed by unmasking the buoyancy forces due to the density difference between the melt...

...,” Proceeding of the 4 th JSME-KSME Thermal Engineering Conference , October 1–6, Kobe, Japan, Vol. 2, pp. 191–196. Ratanadecho , P. , Aoki , K. , and Akahori , M. , 2002 , “ A Numerical and Experimental Study of Microwave Melting of Frozen Packed Bed Using a Rectangular Wave Guide ,” IEEE...

... Heat Transfer Interface Microscale Packed Beds Porous Media The present work investigates a heat transfer phenomenon at the interface between a porous medium and an impermeable wall. In general, a porous medium has many tortuous fluid passages. As a result, by using the porous medium...

.... Associate Editor: S. Sadhal. 06 January 1999 20 July 2000 cooling flow through porous media heat transfer temperature distribution Composites Heat Transfer Manufacturing Moving Boundaries Packed Beds Porous Media Thermal A composite is a combination of two or more...

... in the JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER . Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division November 23, 1999; revision received, July 7, 2000. Associate Editor: M. P. Menguc. 23 November 1999 07 July 2000 emissivity reflectivity radiative transfer Heat Transfer Packed Beds Participating...

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