Enhancement of PCM melting in enclosures with horizontally-finned internal surfaces

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 19-20, 2011, Pages 4182-4192

  Sharifi, Nourouddin ^a   Bergman, Theodore L ^a   Faghri, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Fins; Melting; Natural convection; Phase change

Indexed keywords

CAVITY WALL; CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER; DETAILED MODELS; FIN LENGTH; FINITE VOLUME APPROACH; FINS; HOT WALL; INTERNAL SURFACES; MELTING PROCESS; MELTING RATES; METAL ENCLOSURE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE CHANGE;

ENCLOSURES; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FORCED CONVECTION; METAL MELTING; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

MELTING;

EID: 79959733466     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.05.027     Document Type: Article

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