New Trends of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Phase Change Materials
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J1: Heat and Mass Transfer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 584
Special Issue Editor
Interests: phase-change materials; nanofluids; nanomaterials; thermal conductivity enhancers; finned and porous heat sinks; heat transfer devices; electronics cooling; battery thermal management; thermal energy storage/systems; phase-change cooling and heating; heat transfer enhancement; computational fluid dynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit your latest research to this Special Issue entitled “New trends of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Phase Change Materials”.
The current century is looking forward to the development of novel, clean and sustainable thermal energy storage technologies using phase-change materials (PCMs) for global net zero targets by 2050. The heat transfer and fluid flow augmentation in PCMs play important roles in the overall thermal system performance and efficiency. The inherent thermophysical properties of higher capacity of heat storage/release during heating/cooling process favour PCMs for sustainable and low-carbon thermal energy systems. However, most PCMs exhibit lower thermal conductivity, which reduces their conjugate heat transfer enhancement and thermal efficiency. This Special Issue focuses on new strategies and the development of PCMs based on analytical, experimental and numerical investigations to explore the fundamental understanding of heat transfer, fluid flow and the mass transfer phenomenon for a wide range of applications including thermal energy storage, utilization and conversion, the thermal management of electronics, batteries, photovoltaics and fuel cells, building heating/cooling and smart composite materials.
This Special Issue aims to invite recent investigations related to analytical, experimental and numerical solutions for PCMs to address the challenges of thermo-fluids, material science and energy systems. This Special Issue seeks both high-quality original research and review articles.
Dr. Adeel Arshad
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phase-change materials
- natural and force convection heat transfer
- fins, porous and metal–matrix media
- thermophysical properties
- electronics and battery thermal management
- sustainable energy technologies
- computational fluid dynamics
