SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2008.272 2008.272 A Study on the Heat Transfer Characteristic of FeCrAl Metallic Foam KimPilhwan JinMeihua KimYoungjin yjkim0288@hanmail.net JeongHyomin hmjeong@gnu.ac.kr ChungHanshik hschung@gnu.ac.kr Graduate School of department of Department of Mechanical and Precision Engineering, Gyeongsang national University, Tongyoung, Korea Department of Mechanical and Precision Engineering, Gyeongsang national University, Institute of Marine Science, Tongyoung, Korea 24082008 7 1 978-1-995850-08-5 1945 1950 24 August 2008 © 2008 Copyright WSSET 2008

To enhancement heat transfer performance, the metallic foam as heat exchanger was studied rapidly. This was attributed to its high surface area to volume ratio as well as intensive flow mixing by tortuous flow passages. So the experimental study about the heat transfer characteristic of 10 ppi metallic foam is presented in this paper. Additionally, pressure drop inside the metallic foam was measured and also it was compared with the simulation results. The material in this experiment was used as FeCrAl which has density of 10 ppi and the results show the heat transfer is rise with permeability Reynolds number increase. The results show that the pressure drop metallic foam of 10 ppi was increased with the air velocity increase.

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