Thermal protection from intense localized moving heat fluxes using phase-change materials Article

Cao, Y, Faghri, A. (1990). Thermal protection from intense localized moving heat fluxes using phase-change materials . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, 33(1), 127-138. 10.1016/0017-9310(90)90147-M

cited authors

  • Cao, Y; Faghri, A

authors

abstract

  • Various technologies which protect a wall from being burned out by an intense localized moving heat source have been reviewed, and a solution to this problem is proposed in which a phase-change material (PCM) is placed underneath the wall to absorb the high heat flux. The three-dimensional melting problem is nondimensionalized and modeled with a new enthalpy transforming scheme. The numerical results show that the proposed solution reduces the peak wall temperature significantly. The method of coating the PCM on the wall surface is also employed, which can maintain the surface temperature below the melting temperature of the PCM. © 1990.

publication date

  • January 1, 1990

published in

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start page

  • 127

end page

  • 138

volume

  • 33

issue

  • 1