Performance characteristics of a thermal energy storage module: a transient PCM/forced convection conjugate analysis Article

Cao, Y, Faghri, A. (1991). Performance characteristics of a thermal energy storage module: a transient PCM/forced convection conjugate analysis . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, 34(1), 93-101. 10.1016/0017-9310(91)90177-G

cited authors

  • Cao, Y; Faghri, A

authors

abstract

  • The performance of a thermal energy storage module is simulated numerically. The change of phase of the phase-change material (PCM) and the transient forced convective heat transfer for the transfer fluid with low Prandtl numbers are solved simultaneously as a conjugate problem. A parametric study and a system optimization are conducted. The numerical results show that module geometry is crucial to the design of a space-based thermal energy storage system. © 1991.

publication date

  • January 1, 1991

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start page

  • 93

end page

  • 101

volume

  • 34

issue

  • 1