A theoretical and experimental investigation of unidirectional freezing of nanoparticle-enhanced phase change materials

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Fan, Liwu ^a   Khodadadi, J M ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colloids; freezing; nanoparticles; nanostructures; PCM; phase change; solidification; Stefan model; suspensions; thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

COLD PLATES; COLLOIDAL SYSTEM; EFFECTIVE MEDIA; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FINITE SLAB; FREEZING TIME; FROZEN LAYER; INTEGRAL METHOD; MAXWELL MODELS; MOVING BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; NONMONOTONIC; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE LOADING; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL (PCM); SOLID-PHASE; THERMAL ENERGY EQUATION; THERMOPHYSICAL; TRANSPORT MODELS;

COLLOIDS; FORECASTING; FREEZING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PULSE CODE MODULATION; SOLIDIFICATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THERMOCOUPLES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84863788074     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006305     Document Type: Article

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