Metal foams are materials composed of a solid grid with air-filled pores, and have applications in combustion chambers of gas turbines. In this study, the thermal properties of porous metal foams were tested to determine their usefulness in heating and cooling systems. The Transient Plane Source (TPS) method was used to measure the thermal conductivity of porous metallic foams. Because the porous foams were not as compacted as the dense ...
This study used macroscopic equations to determine fluid dynamics and heat transport properties in metallic slip-reaction (SR)-foams for their application in gas turbines. The numerical results were validated by an experimental method that analyzed the physical and mechanical properties of the SR-foams. An apparatus measured the effective thermal conductivity of the foam samples using the transient plane source (TPS) method. Results showed that the foams had low thermal conductivities ...
