Experimental and numerical study on melting of phase change materials in metal foams at pore scale

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 646-655

  Chen, Zhenqian ^a   Gao, Dongyan ^b   Shi, Juan ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Lattice Boltzmann method; Melting; Metal foams; Phase change materials; Visual experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894299138     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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