Overwhelming research interest in developing green and renewable energy systems has
fostered the innovation of novel latent heat storage systems. Transport phenomena during …

This chapter describes formulation of simulation models for ultrahigh temperature latent heat
thermal energy storage (UHT-LHTES) systems. A brief overview of the involved mechanisms …

We present a new numerical system using finite elements with mesh adaptivity for the
simulation of solid–liquid phase change systems. In the liquid phase, the natural convection …

A high accuracy numerical model is used to simulate an alternate melting and solidification
cycle of a phase change material (PCM). We use a second order (in time and space) finite …

Numerical modeling of phase change problems with convection is known to be
computationally expensive. The main challenge comes from the coupling between Navier …

We extend our recent work on the creeping flow of a Bingham fluid in a lid-driven cavity, to
the study of inertial effects, using a finite volume method and the Papanastasiou …

The enthalpy-porosity technique is commonly used for modeling phase change problems
with natural convection. In most applications however, this technique is restricted to equal …

We have developed a tightly coupled multiphysics simulation tool for the pebble bed reactor
(PBR) concept, a specific type of very high temperature gas-cooled reactor. The simulation …

We present a nonlinear acceleration algorithm for a transport criticality problem. The
algorithm combines the well-known nonlinear diffusion acceleration (NDA) algorithm with a …

In this paper, the solid-liquid phase change problems are investigated by the lattice
Boltzmann method. The flow field and the temperature field are solved by the MRT and …