Haussener, SophiaCoray, P.S.Lipiński, WojciechWyss, PeterSteinfeld, Aldo2022-01-170022-1481http://hdl.handle.net/1885/258454Reticulate porous ceramics employed in high-temperature processes are characterized for heat and mass transfer. The exact 3D digital geometry of their complex porous structure is obtained by computer tomography and used in direct pore-level simulations to numerically calculate their effective transport properties. Two-point correlation functions and mathematical morphology operations are applied for the geometrical characterization that includes the determination of porosity, specific surface area, representative elementary volume edge size, and mean pore size. Finite volume techniques are applied for conductive/convective heat transfer and flow characterization, which includes the determination of the thermal conductivity, interfacial heat transfer coefficient, permeability, Dupuit-Forchheimer coefficient, residence time, tortuosity, and diffusion tensor. Collision-based Monte Carlo method is applied for the radiative heat transfer characterization, which includes the determination of the extinction coefficient and scattering phase function.This work has been financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Contract No. 200021-115888 and by the European Commission under Contract No. 212470 (Project HYCYCLES).application/pdfen-AU© 2010 by ASMEreticulateporousceramiccomputer tomographytransportradiationconductionconvectionMonte CarloDPLSsolar energythermochemical cyclehydrogen201010.1115/1.40002262020-12-06