A comprehensive review of modeling water solidification for droplet freezing applications

S Akhtar, M Xu, M Mohit, AP Sasmito - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Various mathematical approaches undertaken to model all stages of droplet freezing are
reviewed. The literature is rife with theoretical, experimental, and numerical treatments of the …

Experimental and unified mathematical frameworks of water-ice phase change for cold thermal energy storage

M Xu, Y Gao, F Fang, S Akhtar, BA Chaedir… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cold thermal energy storage (CTES) is a process that supplies cold thermal energy to a
medium for storage and extracts it whenever is needed. The storage medium is phase …

Multi-scale analysis for solidification of phase change materials (PCMs): experiments and modeling

M Xu, Y Hanawa, S Akhtar, A Sakuma, J Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a multi-scale solidification framework for pure substances using laboratory
experiments and mathematical modeling. The multi-scale phenomena of solidification are …

Spray freezing: An overview of applications and modeling

M Mohit, M Xu, JC Kurnia, AS Mujumdar… - Drying …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Spray freezing technology finds broad applications across various industries such as food
and pharmaceutical, mining, and water treatment. The significance of spray freezing is to …

A modeling study of sessile water droplet on the cold plate surface during freezing under natural convection with gravity effect considered

LU Menglong, S Mengjie, MA Zhenjun… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Freezing of water droplet is widely seen and important in the fields of aerospace, cold
energy storage, and power production. To investigate the freezing process of a sessile water …

Development of a novel continuous nanofluid ice slurry generator: Experimental and theoretical studies

Y Gao, M Mohit, J Luo, M Xu, F Fang… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ice slurry has remarkable energy storage density due to significant amount of latent heat
during phase change, making it a unique environmentally friendly alternative. This …

Asymptotic analysis of a two-phase Stefan problem in annulus: Application to outward solidification in phase change materials

M Xu, S Akhtar, AF Zueter, MA Alzoubi… - Applied Mathematics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Stefan problems provide one of the most fundamental frameworks to capture phase change
processes. The problem in cylindrical coordinates can model outward solidification, which …

[HTML][HTML] On the stability of nanofluid ice slurry produced via impinging stream method under thermal and phase-change cycles

Y Gao, J Luo, F Fang, M Xu, M Mohit, T Shamim… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanofluid ice slurry has shown promising potential due to superior heat transfer and lower
supercooling degree. The stability of the nanofluid ice slurry is of paramount importance to …

An analytical framework for predicting the total freezing delay time of water droplet impact on hydrophobic solid surfaces

K Shi, J Huang, X Duan - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
An analytical framework is developed to investigate the impact and freezing delay of a water
droplet on solid surfaces, particularly hydrophobic ones, at subfreezing temperatures …

Experimental study on the freezing process of a supercooled horizontal water bridge between cold fins

X Wu, J Gong, L Jin, J Hou, G Liu - International Journal of Refrigeration, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a series of experiments were conducted to comprehensively investigate the
freezing process of a static supercooled horizontal water bridge between cold fins. How cold …