Thermal characteristics of shape-stabilized phase change material wallboard with periodical outside temperature waves

Applied Energy

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2666-2672

  Zhou, Guobing ^a   Yang, Yongping ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Cheng, Jinming ^a  

^a Beijing Key Lab of New Energy Material and Technology   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decrement factor; Energy storage; Shape stabilized phase change material; Thermal characteristics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUILDING MATERIALS; ENERGY STORAGE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MELTING; MELTING POINT; PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDINGS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVECTIVE COEFFICIENT; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; DECREMENT FACTOR; FULLY IMPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCES; SHAPE STABILIZED PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; SINUSOIDAL TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUILDING; CONCRETE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POLYMER; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

EID: 77953138780     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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