Open-cell porous metals for thermal management
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Date: 19/12/2016

A lecture given by Jan Baloyo of the University of Liverpool, Department of Engineering, for the 2016 Literature Review Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (London). 

Porous metals are produced by a wide range of industrially applied techniques, and the resulting porous structure is a characteristic of the manufacturing method chosen. This review firstly provides an overview of the different techniques to manufacture open-cell porous metals, highlighting the distinction between the resulting porous structures. The effects of the structural parameters on the fluid flow properties and heat transfer in porous metals are also discussed. It was evident from literature that there exist optimum structural parameters which offered maximum thermal exchange performance. Therefore, the last part of this review outlines the current research on porous metals for thermal management applications, which focuses on optimising the design of the porous metal structure to improve the heat transfer performance.

The Materials Literature Review Prize of IOM3 aims to encourage the preparation of definitive, critical reviews of the literature by students as an essential part of study for a higher degree in the materials field, and subsequently make the best of these available to a wider readership. The prize is administered by the Editorial Board of MST (the journal Materials Science and Technology).

Open to any postgraduate student studying in the UK or internationally, the prize carries a cash award, in line with other IOM3 prizes for papers. A winning entry and two runner-up prizes are awarded each year, and all entries are considered for publication in the journal subject to acceptance following peer-review. 


http://www.iom3.org/news/2016/jul/05/materials-literature-review-prize-winner-announced