...Swaraj D. Lewis; Purushothama Chippar In Phase Change Material (PCM) simulations, buoyancy force is used to capture the melting contour. However, for the sake of simplicity, most of the PCM-based Metal Hydride (MH) simulations have ignored the influence of buoyancy in PCM which is crucial...

... element method (FEM)-based commercial software COMSOL Multiphysics to investigate the effect of various geometric and operating parameters on the cooling performance of the thermoelectric cooler. The parameters such as fill factor, leg dimensions, heat sink size, and phase change material (PCM) filling...

...De-Xin Zhang; Chuan-Yong Zhu; Liang Gong; Bin Ding; Ming-Hai Xu This work presents a numerical investigation of the thermal control performance of a phase change material (PCM) composite-filling fin heat exchanger under natural convection and transient heat flux shocks. First, the temperature...

...Abhishek Agrawal; Dibakar Rakshit Energy storage using latent heat of solid–liquid phase change material (PCM) is an efficient option due to high energy density and low volume variation during phase change. Such type of storage is suitable to exploit untapped solar energy and waste heat energy...

...Thangavel Ramalingam Sathish Kumar; Selvaraj Jegadheeswaran In the present study, a novel solar still incorporated with fins and phase change material (PCM)-based energy storage was designed. To investigate the influence of fins and energy storage unit, four cases of stills were considered. In case...

...Fatih Selimefendigil; Hakan F. Öztop Nanoliquid impingement heat transfer with a phase change material (PCM) installed radial system is considered. The study is performed by using the finite element method for various values of Reynolds numbers (100 ≤ Re ≤ 300), height of PCM (0.25H ≤ h pcm ≤ 0.75H...

...Hamza Faraji; Mustapha Faraji; Mustapha El Alami The present paper reports numerical results of the melting driven natural convection in an inclined rectangular enclosure filled with nano-enhanced phase change material (NePCM). The enclosure is heated from the bottom side by a flush-mounted heat...

...Santosh Kumar Sahoo; Prasenjit Rath; Mihir Kumar Das The present work aims at developing a heat transfer model for phase change material nanocomposite (PCMNC)-based finned heat sink to study its heat rejection potential. The proposed model is developed in line with the binary alloy formulation...

.... Assoc. Editor: Mehmet Arik. 13 11 2013 12 10 2014 15 04 2015 In this paper, passive thermal management of an electric vehicle (EV) battery pack with phase change material (PCM) is studied numerically. When the temperature in the cells increases, and consequently...

... after breakdown was shown to restore resistance values to prebreakdown levels. The results suggest the use of CNT-enhanced water as a phase change material presents a significant operational challenge due to instability of the CNT network during phase change cycling. Should the use of such nanofluids...