Hydraulic properties of natural fractures are essential parameters for the modeling of fluid
flow and transport in subsurface fractured porous media. The cubic law, based on the …

By a porous medium we mean a material consisting of a solid matrix with an interconnected
void. We suppose that the solid matrix is either rigid (the usual situation) or it undergoes …

The metal foams are a promising candidate for the enhancement of heat transfer in latent
heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) units. These foams can be synthesized with …

Embedding phase change material in metal foams improves the heat transfer characteristics
of a thermal energy storage device. Here, the melting heat transfer of phase change …

Polynomial chaos expansions are frequently used by engineers and modellers for
uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of computer models. They allow representing the …

Latent heat thermal energy storage systems with phase change material are an efficient
method to address the variability of renewable energy sources. Despite the prospect of the …

The flow and heat transfer fields of a nanofluid within V-shaped cavity are analyzed using
the incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamic (ISPH) scheme. Novel studies on a …

Latent heat storage in a shell-tube is a promising method to store excessive solar heat for
later use. The shell-tube unit is filled with a phase change material PCM combined with a …

In this paper, the combined buoyancy–Marangoni convection of non-Newtonian power-law
nanofluids in a 3D heterogeneous porous cubic cavity is investigated in detail with the …

Investigating thermal convection within porous media permeated by fluids and micro-
organisms stands as a significant inquiry with broad relevance across geophysical and …