Shell-and-tube type latent heat thermal energy storage: Numerical analysis and comparison with experiments

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1027-1033

  Rösler, Fabian ^a   Brüggemann, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; ENTHALPY-POROSITY METHOD; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; LIQUID FRACTION; MELTING PROCESS; RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURES; SHELL-AND-TUBE;

GALLIUM; HEAT STORAGE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAFFIN WAXES; PARAFFINS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80051782229     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-011-0866-9     Document Type: Article

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