Honeycomb and foams in thermal energy systems

In Thermal Energy Systems the improvement of heat transfer is always a challenge for researcher. In particular, for storage and thermal management applications there are many improvement techniques to design and optimize the thermal energy systems, such as the addition of metal foam, fins or using a honeycomb structure. In these areas, Thermal Energy Storage (TES) systems and heat exchangers are the most utilized devices. A TES works as a thermal buffer that store the exceed energy and release it when required, while the heat exchangers are a media to transfer thermal energy from solid to fluid and vice-versa.