...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...

...   mm of rectangular waveguide. Figure 18 shows the moisture profile within F-C bed, from a macroscopic point of view for the hydrodynamic characteristic properties within two-layered porous packed bed, we will consider the liquid water transport at the interface between two beds where...

... through porous media interface phenomena 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...

.... 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...

... a direct radiometric technique that has been recently proposed. For a system of packed opaque spheres at high temperature, good agreement is observed between experimental results of directional spectral and computed theoretical data. Heat Transfer Packed Beds Participating Media Porous Media...

... and Fluid Flow , Hemisphere, New York. Siu, W. W. M., and Lee, S. H.-K., 1997, “Transient Temperature Computation for a System of Multiple Contacting Spheres in 180 degree Orientation,” ASME HTD-Vol. 339, ASME, New York, pp. 151–160. Conduction Contact Resistance Heat Transfer Packed beds...