Since the buildings' heating and cooling needs are always growing during the cold and
warm months, respectively, the buildings' energy consumption has dramatically shot up. So …

Phase change materials (PCMs) offer great potential as a latent heat energy storage
technique to provide energy efficient systems in new and existing residential buildings. Due …

Embedded fin in phase change materials (PCMs) is one of the most efficient methods to
enhance the heat transfer between the PCM and heat transfer fluid (HTF). An appropriate …

The melting of nano-enhanced phase change material (NEPCM) in a latent heat thermal
storage system is investigated for PCM loaded within an annulus between an outer wavy …

The encapsulation technique of phase change materials in the nanodimension is an
innovative approach to improve the heat transfer capability and solve the issues of corrosion …

Nowadays, phase change materials (PCMs) have gained further importance as they are the
main substance in thermal energy storage systems. The observations indicated that the rate …

The present paper presents a 2D-symmetric numerical study within a new-suggested
configuration of a PCM's capsule aimed to investigate the heat distribution and the melting …

Despite the merits of incorporating phase change materials in concentrating solar
thermoelectric generating systems, the following research gaps still need to be filled to make …

In this study two phase change materials (PCMs) mixed with sand were evaluated for
distributed latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) coupled with a novel Flat-Panel …

In this numerical study, a cubic box filled with a Nanoparticle Enhanced Phase Change
Material (NEPCM)(mixture “N-Octadecane/alumina (Al 2 O 3)"), is considered. Using Comsol …