Investigating the effects of adding hybrid nanoparticles, graphene and boron nitride nanosheets, to octadecane on its thermal properties

Abstract

Octadecane is an alkane that is used to store thermal energy at ambient temperature as a phase change material.

Molecular dynamics simulations of phase change materials for thermal energy storage: a review

“…In another research, Tafrishi et al 85 investigated the addition effects of hybrid nanoparticles to PCM. They added graphene and boron nitride nanosheets to octadecane paraffin.…”

Effect of the in-plane aspect ratio of a graphene filler on anisotropic heat conduction in paraffin/graphene composites

“…In order to examine the anisotropy in thermal conductivity using the NEMD method, one must perform multiple simulations with a temperature gradient imposed in different directions. [28][29][30][31] Ideally, it is desirable to express thermal conductivity as a second-rank tensor and examine heat conduction in the principal directions. To this aim, the equilibrium MD (EMD) simulation based on the Green-Kubo formula is more suitable than the NEMD method because all components of the thermal conductivity tensor can be obtained in a single simulation run.…”

Develop artificial neural network numerical modeling to study fluid flow and heat transfer of dispersed nanoparticles through base liquid

“…Most of studies have initially focused on analyzing the thermophysical properties of nanofluids (Tafrishi et al , 2020; Khan et al , 2020). Large number of articles can be referred concerning nano particles effects inside the base fluids (Nazari et al , 2020; Saif et al , 2020).…”