Effects of buoyancy-driven convection on melting within spherical containers

By J. M. Khodadadi, Y. Zhang. 2001

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Numerical study of melting inside concentric and eccentric horizontal annulus (2012, background): “Khodadadi and Zhang [25] studied the effect of buoyancy-driven convection on constrained melting of PCM in a spherical container numerically.”
Nanoparticle-enhanced phase change materials (nepcm) with great potential for improved thermal energy storage (2007, methodology): “Theoretical details of these techniques can be found elsewhere (Voller and Prakash [6], Khodadadi and Zhang [7] and FLUENT [5]).”
A combined experimental and computational study on the melting behavior of a medium temperature phase change storage material inside shell and tube heat exchanger (2012, background): “Khodadadi and Zhang [3] numerically studied the effect of buoyancy-driven convection on constrained melting of PCM in a spherical container.”
An experimental investigation of shell and tube latent heat storage for solar dryer using paraffin wax as heat storage material (2016, background): “Zhang and Faghri [21] numerically studied freezing in an eccentric annulus using a temperature-transforming model.”
Melting of PCM in a thermal energy storage unit: Numerical investigation and effect of nanoparticle enhancement (2013, background): “It has been shown [4,29] that Prandtl, Rayleigh, Stefan, Subcooling, Darcy and Fourier are the dimensionless numbers that govern the melting problem in the PCM.”