An experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer during technical grade paraffin melting and solidification in a shell-and-tube latent thermal energy storage unit

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Review on heat transfer analysis in thermal energy storage using latent heat storage systems and phase change materials (2018, unknown): “∂hf ∂τ 1⁄4 ∂ ∂x αf ∂hf ∂x þ ∂ ∂y αf ∂hf ∂y ; (36) where τis the time, in s; x and y are the space coordinates, in m; α is the thermal diffusivity of PCM, in m(2)/s; αf is the thermal diffusivity of container material, in m(2)/s; and hf is the sensible volumetric enthalpy of container material, in J/”
Experimental and numerical investigation of the application of phase change materials in a simulative power batteries thermal management system (2014, unknown): “The enthalpy-based numerical approach [25–29] is believed to be reliable and efficient in designing and optimizing the passive battery thermal management system.”
Shell-and-tube type latent heat thermal energy storage: numerical analysis and comparison with experiments (2011, methodology): “Within this group, the most widely applied method is the enthalpy formulation which was used by Lacroix [3], Gong and Mujumdar [4] and Trp [ 5 ] to simulate the conduction driven phase transition in a shell-and-tube type LHTES.”
An experimental investigation of shell and tube latent heat storage for solar dryer using paraffin wax as heat storage material (2016, methodology): “Trp [20] conducted an experimental and numerical investigation of the shelland-tube type latent thermal energy storage system during charging and discharging.”