Thermo-Fluid Optimization of a Porous Absorber With a Variable Pore Structure
Thermo-Fluid Optimization of a Porous Absorber With a Variable Pore Structure
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可变孔结构多孔吸收体的热流体优化
DOI:
10.1115/1.4037350
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Zhou L.
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作者:
Wang P.;Li J. B.;Vafai K.;Zhao L.;Zhou L.
Optimization based on reconstruction of the velocity, temperature, and radiation fields in a porous absorber with continuous linear porosity or pore diameter distribution is carried out in this work. This study analyzes three typical linear pore structure distributions: increasing (“I”), decreasing (“D”), and constant (“C”) types, respectively. In general, the D type porosity (ϕ) layout combined with the I type pore diameter (dp) distribution would be an excellent pore structure layout for a porous absorber. The poor performance range, which should be avoided in the absorber design, is found to be within a wide range of porosity layouts (ϕi= ∼0.7 andϕo> 0.6) and pore diameter layouts (di= 1.5–2.5 mm), respectively. With a large inlet porosity (ϕi> 0.8), the D type layout with larger porosity gradient (Gp) has a better thermal performance; however, the I type dplayout with a smaller inlet pore diameter (di< 1.5 mm) and a larger pore diameter gradient (Gdp) is recommended when considering the lower pressure drop. Different pore structure layouts (D type or I type) have a significant effect on the pressure drop, even with the same averageϕaand da, the maximum deviation can be up to 70.1%. The comprehensive performance evaluation criteria (PEC) value shows that the D typeϕlayout with a largerϕahas an excellent thermopressure drop performance, and a part of PEC values for the I type dplayout are greater than unity.