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Numerical investigation on melting behaviour of phase change materials/metal foam composites under hypergravity conditions
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In this article , the effects of inclination angle, hypergravity value, metal foam porosity, and pore density on the melting behavior of phase change materials (PCM)/metal foam composite is analyzed.About:
This article is published in Applied Thermal Engineering.The article was published on 2022-05-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Metal foam & Phase-change material.read more
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Heat transfer enhancement of phase change materials embedded with metal foam for thermal energy storage: A review
TL;DR: In this paper , a review of phase change materials (PCMs) and metal foam (MF) for heat transfer in the latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) system is presented.
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Regulation mechanism of magnetic field on non-Newtonian melting and energy storage performance of metal foam composite nano-enhanced phase change materials
TL;DR: In this paper , the effect of magnetic field on non-Newtonian melting performance of nano-enhanced phase change material (NEPCM) composited with metal foam was numerically studied.
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Evaluation and comparison of thermal performance of latent heat storage units with shell-and-tube, rectangular, and cylindrical configurations
TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed a numerical model of heat transfer and flow in shell-and-tube, rectangular, and cylindrical LHSU with the same PCM mass and heat transfer area.
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Progress of research on phase change energy storage materials in their thermal conductivity
Shenhui Tan,Xuelai Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the thermal conductivity mechanism of phase change materials (PCM) was studied from a microscopic perspective, providing a theoretical basis and a validation model for the study of thermal conductivities of PCM.
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Latent heat thermal energy storage in a shell-tube: A wavy partial layer of metal foam over tubes
TL;DR: In this article , the phase change energy and natural convection effects were modeled using the enthalpy porosity approach, and the control equations were solved using the finite element method over a structured mesh.
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TL;DR: In this article, a simple empirical expression for the mean value of Nu over the cylinder for all Ra and all Pr is developed in terms of the model of Churchill and Usagi.
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Forced Convection in High Porosity Metal Foams
V. V. Calmidi,Roop L. Mahajan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental and numerical study of forced convection in high porosity (e∼0.89-0.97) metal foams was conducted using air as the fluid medium.
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On the effective thermal conductivity of a three-dimensionally structured fluid-saturated metal foam
Kevin Boomsma,Dimos Poulikakos +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a geometrical effective thermal conductivity model of a saturated porous metal foam was developed, based on the idealized three-dimensional basic cell geometry of a foam, the tetrakaidecahedron.
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Heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage using metal foams embedded within phase change materials (PCMs)
Changying Zhao,W. Lu,Yuan Tian +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of metal foams on solid/liquid phase change heat transfer is investigated, and the results show that the use of metal foam can make the sample solidified much faster than pure PCM samples, evidenced by the solidification time being reduced by more than half.
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A numerical investigation of heat transfer in phase change materials (PCMs) embedded in porous metals
Yuan Tian,Changying Zhao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of metal foams on heat transfer enhancement in phase change materials (PCMs) are investigated based on the two-equation non-equilibrium heat transfer model, in which the coupled heat conduction and natural convection are considered at phase transition and liquid zones.