Numerical study of solidification in annular geometry / Estudo numerico da solidificação em geometria anular

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

Solidification of a phase-change material in an annulus around a cylinder, which carries inside it a coolant fluid, is studied numerically for application in latent heat thermal energy storage. The boundaryimmobilization technique is used for solving the phase-change problem. A coordinate transformation is performed so that in the new system the moving and irregular boundary becomes fixed and parallel to the others. Heat conduction in the phase-change material is coupled with conduction in the inner tube wall and convection in the coolant. The fmite-volume methodology is used for discretization of the equations from the mathematical model which are then solved by a computer programo Some aspects related with the application of the boundaryimmobilization technique are analyzed such as the appearance of pseudo-convective and pseudo-anisotropic terms as a consequence of the change of variables. Aspects related to the coupling of conduction ill the cylinder wall and phase-change material with convection in the coolant fluid are also studied. Comparisons with other solutions available in the literature are presented as well results for the specific case of water being the phasechange material

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heat storage calor - armazenamento solidificação (analise numerica) solidification (numerical analysis)

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