Meet the editors

Dr. Huijin Xu is an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. His research focuses on flow/heat/mass transport in porous media, thermal energy storage, thermochemical processes, and more. He has a good record of publications in the areas of thermal storage, porous media, and heat/mass transfer. He also has a good record

in educating undergraduates and postgraduates with some approved achievements. Dr. Xu is currently an associate editor for *Special Topics & Reviews in Porous Media* and an editorial board member for the *Journal of Porous Media*.

Dr. Chen Yang is a professor at the College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, China. He received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Shizuoka, Japan. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a postdoc at the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT), France. He joined Fuzhou University as an associate professor in 2014 and was promoted to full professor in 2016. His research activity covers various areas, such as trans-

port theory in porous media and chemical process intensification. He has published more than forty papers in journals such as *AIChE Journal, Chemical Engineering Science*, and others. Due to the achievement of catalytic packing optimization, Dr. Yang received a number of awards including first prize for S&T Progress Award (2016, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association; 2018, People's Government of Fujian Province).

Dr. Dengwei Jing is a full-time professor at the International Research Center for Renewable Energy and the State Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his PhD in Thermal Engineering from the same university in 2007. His field of expertise is renewable energy conversion and enhanced heat and mass transfer. Currently, he leads a large project funded by the National Key

Research Program of China, and has obtained China National Funds for Excellent Young Scientists. He was awarded the Newton Advanced Fellowship from Royal Society, UK. Dr. Jing has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal papers in *Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters, AIChE Journal*, and others. He has been a plenary/keynote speaker at many renowned international conferences. He is now the associate editor for *Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics* and is an editorial board member for many other journals, including *Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Heliyon, Fluids, and Fluid Mechanics Research Journal.* 

Contents

Applications

Constructions

Air and Argon

*and Alexander Karamanov*

Producing Metallic Foam *by Shyam Sunder Sharma*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 49**

**Chapter 4 71**

**Chapter 5 87**

**Chapter 6 105**

**Chapter 7 125**

Open-Pore Foams Modified by Incorporation of New Phases: Multiphase Foams for Thermal, Catalytic and Medical Emerging

*by Lucila Paola Maiorano Lauría and José Miguel Molina Jordá*

Thermal and Acoustic Numerical Simulation of Foams for

*by Marco Caniato, Giada Kyaw Oo D'Amore and Jan Kašpar*

Turbulent Heat Transfer Analysis of Silicon Carbide Ceramic

Sintered Iron-Rich Glass-Ceramics and Foams Obtained in

*by Nicolai B. Jordanov, Esmat M.A. Hamzawy, Dragomir Tatchev* 

Design and Development of Manufacturing System Design for

The Improvement of the Quality of Construction Foam and Non-Autoclave Foam Concrete on Its Basis through

*by Anastasia Sychova, Larisa Svatovskaya and Maxim Sychov*

CO2 Foam for Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications *by Ahmed Farid Ibrahim and Hisham A. Nasr-El-Din*

the Introduction of Nanosize Additives

Foam as a Solar Volumetric Receiver

*by Chen Yang, Huijin Xu and Akira Nakayama*
