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Multi-Scale Study of High-Temperature Latent Heat Storage With Metallic Phase Change Materials

Energy storage is a central issue in the green economy with half the global end energy usage being heat. Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) provides an energy dense heat storage solution with a well-defined discharge temperature. Utilizing low-cost ...

EPFL2022

Buoyancy-driven melting and solidification heat transfer analysis in encapsulated phase change materials

Sophia Haussener, Nithin Mallya

Controlled melting and solidification in encapsulated phase change materials (PCMs) is of practical interest, for example, in latent heat storage applications. The choice of PCMs and the dynamic heat transfer characteristics during phase change - affecting ...

2020

Modeling and experimentation of conductive and radiative transfer through heterogeneous insulators in high-flux environments

Jérémy Raphaël Mora-Monteros

Heterogeneous materials are used in a wide range of applications involving high heat flux environments such as concentrated solar reactors, high-temperature furnaces, or thermal protection systems of space vehicles. The thermal response of heterogeneous ma ...

EPFL2019

Heat flux variation between neighboring channels in compact minichannel heat exchangers

The channel-to-channel heat flux variation was studied by solving numerically the conjugate, three-dimensional, transient heat transfer problem of louvered fins bounded by multiport aluminum plates. Two different multiport plate configurations (A and B) we ...

2018

Instability of flow boiling in paralell microchannels

Heat exchangers are key components of energy conversion systems, including HVAC&R equipment. The compact microchannel design of a heat exchanger (MCHX) allows for significant reduction of its volume, weight, and raw material, in comparison to conventional ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2017

The Crossed Projection to the Striatum in Two Species of Monkey and in Humans: Behavioral and Evolutionary Significance

Giorgio Innocenti, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

The corpus callosum establishes the anatomical continuity between the 2 hemispheres and coordinates their activity. Using histological tracing, single axon reconstructions, and diffusion tractography, we describe a callosal projection to n caudatus and put ...

Oxford University Press2017

Ice-covered Lake Onega: effects of radiation on convection and internal waves

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard

Early-spring under-ice convection in the Petrozavodsk Bay of Lake Onega (Russia) was investigated as part of an interdisciplinary research project conducted during March 2015. Measurements performed using a thermistor chain and vertical profiling sensors w ...

Springer Verlag2016

Energetic Macroscopic Representation of A Linear Reciprocating Compressor Model

Alfred Rufer, François Gallaire, Philippe Barrade, Mahbod Heidari

This article introduces the energetic macroscopic representation (EMR) as approach for the dynamic nonlinear modeling of a reciprocating air compressor. EMR has been introduced recently for research development in complex electromechanical systems and is b ...

Elsevier2015

Thermal Conductivity of Graphene and Graphite: Collective Excitations and Mean Free Paths

Nicola Marzari, Andrea Cepellotti, Lorenzo Paulatto, Giorgia Fugallo

We characterize the thermal conductivity of graphite, monolayer graphene, graphane, fluorographane, and bilayer graphene, solving exactly the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons, with phononphonon collision rates obtained from density functional pertu ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Numerical investigation of hydrodynamics and heat transfer of elongated bubbles during flow boiling in a microchannel

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini

Flow boiling within microchannels has been explored intensively in the last decade due to their capability to remove high heat fluxes from microelectronic devices. However, the contribution of experiments to the understanding of the local features of the f ...

Elsevier2013

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