Numerical study on melting of paraffin wax with Al2O3 in a square enclosure

Increased Melting Heat Transfer in the Latent Heat Energy Storage from the Tube-and-Shell Model to the Combine-and-Shell Model

“…Like the work performed by Arasu and Mujumdar [18] in which they compared the phenomenon of phase change on a square grid with the heater being on vertical wall as opposed to it being on the horizontal wall, the results show that the melting time with a vertical wall heater was faster because there was an increase in natural convection. Kousksou et al [19] compared the melting process in the rectangular cavity to the wavy wall at the bottom and the results show that the increase in the value of the amplitude of the bumpy surface causes an increase in the melting rate.…”

Numerical study of finned heat pipe-assisted thermal energy storage system with high temperature phase change material

“…The example of commonly used methods include the dispersion of high conductivity particles in the PCM [14][15][16][17], embedding the PCM in the high conductivity porous medium [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] as well as inserting extended surfaces and fins [25][26][27][28].…”

Numerical study for enhancement of solidification of phase change materials using trapezoidal cavity

“…Most of the previous studies are concerned with the analysis of the conduction or natural convection heat transfer of PCMs in regular shapes like asquare/rectangular cavity [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], cylindrical cavity [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], and spherical cavity [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Gau and Viskanta [8] experimentally investigated the buoyancy driven flow in gallium and its effect on solid-liquid interface motion and heat transfer during melting and solidification in a rectangular cavity.…”