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标题：Heat transfer improvement between a pair of heater and cooler inside an energy storage by using nano-encapsulated phase change material/water: A numerical modeling
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作者：Yan Cao ; Naeim Farouk ; Hamdi Ayed 等
期刊名称：Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
印刷版ISSN：2214-157X
电子版ISSN：2214-157X
出版年度：2022
卷号：30
页码：101770
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier B.V.
摘要：In the present study, the natural convection flow of water with Nano-encapsulated phase change material (NPCM) was simulated inside an insulated chamber, which a pair of pipes were considered as a heater and cooler sources with the boundary condition of uniform temperature. The NPCM's core was made of n-nonadecane with melting temperature of 30.44°C. This core has ability to change the liquid-solid phase to transfer heat between the heater and the cooler sources. Current simulation was steady state and was solved by SIMPLE algorithm based on FVM to investigate the effects of Rayleigh number, volume fraction and location of phase change zone on the convective heat transfer coefficient. Observations showed that, phase change of NPCM occurs at low Rayleigh numbers but had no effect on the convective heat transfer coefficient, but it was directly related to the thermal conductivity of mixture. Moreover, adding volume fraction of NPCM 0.02 into water increased the convective heat transfer coefficient by 10.43%, 19.1% and 18.3% compared to pure water for Rayleigh numbers 102,104,and106, respectively.
关键词：Nano-encapsulated phase change material Heather and cooler Natural convection n-nonadecane Numerical method