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Latent heat

About: Latent heat is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13503 publications have been published within this topic receiving 302811 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive and systematic methodology of Phase Change Materials assessment for Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage design, which comprises prescreening, ranking and performance objective examination based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making tools, is proposed.

88 citations

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TL;DR: A topology optimization framework of a Thermal Energy Storage system involving phase change is presented and it is observed that 3D designs allow superior performances by presenting features that are not apparent in 2D.

88 citations

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Rui Huang1, Zhi Li1, Hong Wenhua1, Wu Qichao1, Xiaoli Yu1 
TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal performance of a battery module with 25-parallel 18650 lithium-ion battery has been numerically and experimentally investigated by adopting phase change cooling with phase change material (PCM).

88 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors computed air-sea transfers of sensible heat, latent heat and momentum from 25 years of middle-latitude and subtropical ocean weather ship data in the North Atlantic and North Pacific using the bulk aerodynamic method.
Abstract: Air-sea transfers of sensible heat, latent heat and momentum are computed from 25 years of middle-latitude and subtropical ocean weather ship data in the North Atlantic and North Pacific using the bulk aerodynamic method. The results show that monthly averaged wind speeds, temperatures and humidities can be used to estimate the monthly averaged sensible and latent heat fluxes from the bulk aero-dynamic equations to within a relative error of ∼10%. The estimates of monthly averaged wind stress under the assumption of neutral stability are shown to be within ∼5% of the monthly averaged non-neutral values.

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TL;DR: In this article, the seasonal cycle of surface heat flux is obtained by using the sea surface temperature from the hydrographic data bank and meteorological data from coastal stations along the gulf.
Abstract: Most of the available hydrographic data (1939–1988) from the Gulf of California are used to describe the seasonal cycle of heat storage in the upper 400 m of water. The seasonal cycle of surface heat flux is obtained by using the sea surface temperature from the hydrographic data bank and meteorological data from coastal stations along the gulf. Monthly values of surface heat flux and heat storage are fitted to a mean value plus an annual harmonic. The longitudinal (i.e., along-gulf) heat flux is then obtained by integrating the difference between the rate of change of heat storage and the surface heat flux. It is found that the surface heat flux has a positive (into the sea) annual mean all along the gulf; the average annual net surface heat flux for the whole gulf being ∼118 W m−2. The southern part of the gulf gains more heat (∼130 W m−2) than the northern part (∼100 W m−2), owing to the larger loss by evaporation in the latter (∼0.6 m/yr versus ∼1 m/yr) caused by lower humidity and stronger winds. These values are in agreement with previous estimates for the northern gulf. The amplitude of the seasonal signal shows a maximum of ∼230 W m−2 in the central part. Winter heat losses occur only from the middle of the gulf, the Guaymas Basin, to its head. There is a strong annual signal superimposed on the average longitudinal heat flux, whose amplitude is larger than the annual harmonic of the surface heat flux. Input of heat from the Pacific Ocean occurs from mid-March to mid-July, with a maximum at the mouth in May (21×1012 W). Attempts to explain this flux by diffusive processes were unsuccessful. The proposition that advection is the main longitudinal heat carrier is congruent with the generally accepted circulation patterns.

88 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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20221,033
2021640
2020583
2019615
2018578