Thermal charging and discharging of sensible and latent heat storage packed beds

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 623-625

  Sozen, Mehmet ^a   Vafai, Kambiz ^a   Kennedy, Lawrence A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY STORAGE; FLUIDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

COMPRESSIBLE WORKING FLUIDS; LATENT STORAGE PACKED BEDS; PHASE-CHANGE MATERIALS (PCM); THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0026239499     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.309     Document Type: Article

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