...Wonchang Park; Kyungwho Choi; Khalid Lafdi; Choongho Yu Carbon nanotube- or/and graphite-filled polymer composites were synthesized by using simple mixing and drying methods, and their thermal conductivities and structures were characterized by using a steady-state method (ASTM D5470) and scanning...

... properties of graphite foams are oversimplified. In particular, it has been found that the dispersion conductivity is not well characterized using the Péclet number alone, rather the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers must be considered as separate influences. Additionally, the convecting velocity modification...

...Pamela M. Norris; Justin L. Smoyer; John C. Duda; Patrick E. Hopkins Due to the high intrinsic thermal conductivity of carbon allotropes, there have been many attempts to incorporate such structures into existing thermal abatement technologies. In particular, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphitic...

...K. C. Leong; H. Y. Li; L. W. Jin; J. C. Chai Highly conductive porous media have recently been considered for enhanced cooling applications due to their large internal contact surface area, which promotes convection at the pore level. In this paper, graphite foams that possess high thermal...

...Robert J. Moffat; John K. Eaton; Andrew Onstad Metallic and graphitic open-cell foams are being used or proposed as extended surfaces (fins) in heat sinks for electronic cooling and compact heat exchangers for aircraft applications. Three parameters must be known to calculate the heat transfer...

...Nihad Dukhan In certain contemporary technologies, porous media with high solid-phase conductivity are impregnated with low-conductivity fluids, e.g., metal and graphite foam cooled by air. For such cases, an approximate analytical model for the developing heat transfer inside a two-dimensional...

...Randy D. Weinstein; Thomas C. Kopec; Amy S. Fleischer; Elizabeth D’Addio; Carol A. Bessel To improve the thermal performance of phase change materials (PCMs), graphite nanofibers were embedded into a paraffin PCM. The thermal effects of graphite fiber loading levels ( 0 – 5 wt % ) and graphite...

...Jack L. Parker; Mohamed S. El-Genk Effects of orientations of porous graphite and smooth copper surfaces, measuring 10 mm × 10 mm , on saturation nucleate boiling and critical heat flux (CHF) of FC-72 dielectric liquid and of liquid subcooling (0, 10, 20, and 30 K ) on nucleate boiling...