Assessing long-term performance of centralized thermal energy storage system

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 313-321

  El Sawi, Azeldin ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Akbari, Hashem ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central energy storage; Heat transfer model; Phase change materials; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL VENTILATION SYSTEM; PHASE CHANGE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS;

AIR CONDITIONING; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLOW RATE; FORECASTING; HEAT STORAGE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRICITY; VENTILATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84889835335     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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