This paper investigates the influence of melting and thermo-diffusion effect on natural convection heat and mass transfer from vertical flat plate in a non-Newtonian fluid saturated non-Darcy porous medium. The wall and the ambient medium are maintained at constant but different levels of temperature and concentration such that the heat and mass transfer occurs from the wall to the medium. The ...

in this work, a thermal energy storage system was designed and equipped with measuring instruments to study heat transfer characteristics and energy storage and release. in this system, a cubic container which is made of plexiglass was filled with dodecanoic acid as a phase change material. in order to transfer heat to the storage container, a constant temperature heat exchanger was designed an...

The present paper deals with the study of fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics occurring during the melting process due to a stretching surface in micropolar fluid with thermal radiation. A uniform magnetic field is applied normal to surface. The governing equations representing fluid flow have been transformed into nonlinear ordinary differential equations using similarity transformati...

The most PCMs with high energy storage density have an unacceptably low heat conductivity and hence internal heat transfer enhancement techniques such as fins or other metal structures are required in latent heat thermal storage (LHTS) applications. Previous work has concentrated on numerical and experimental examination in determining the influence of the fins in melting phase change material....

In this paper, the melting of a semi-infinite body as a result of a moving laser beam has been studied. Because the Fourier heat transfer equation at short times and large dimensions does not have sufficient accuracy; a non-Fourier form of heat transfer equation has been used. Due to the fact that the beam is moving in x direction, the temperature distribution and the melting pool shape are not...