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Characterization of size effect of natural convection in melting process of phase change material in square cavity |
| Shi-Hao Cao(曹世豪)1 and Hui Wang(王辉)2,† |
1 College of Civil Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China;
2 School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China |
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Abstract The accelerating effect of natural convection on the melting of phase change material (PCM) has been extensively demonstrated. However, such an influence is directly dependent on the size and shape of domain in which phase change happens, and how to quantitatively describe such an influence is still challenging. On the other hand, the simulation of natural convection process is considerably difficult, involving complex fluid flow in a region changing with time, and is typically not operable in practice. To overcome these obstacles, the present study aims to quantitatively investigate the size effect of natural convection in the melting process of PCM paraffin filled in a square latent heat storage system through experiment and simulation, and ultimately a correlation equation to represent its contribution is proposed. Firstly, the paraffin melting experiment is conducted to validate the two-dimensional finite element model based on the enthalpy method. Subsequently, a comprehensive investigation is performed numerically for various domain sizes. The results show that the melting behavior of paraffin is dominated by the thermal convection. When the melting time exceeds 50 s, a whirlpoor flow caused by natural convection appears in the upper liquid phase region close to the heating wall, and then its influencing range gradually increases to accelerate the melting of paraffin. However, its intensity gradually decreases as the distance between the melting front and the heating wall increases. Besides, it is found that the correlation between the total melting time and the domain size approximately exhibits a power law. When the domain size is less than 2 mm, the accelerating effect of natural convection becomes very weak and can be ignored in practice. Moreover, in order to simplify the complex calculation of natural convection, the equivalent thermal conductivity concept is proposed to include the contribution of natural convection to the total melting time, and an empirical correlation is given for engineering applications.
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Received: 20 January 2021
Revised: 11 February 2021
Accepted manuscript online: 01 March 2021
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PACS:
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44.25.+f
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(Natural convection)
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91.60.Hg
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(Phase changes)
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| Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51908197 and 12072107), the Tackle Key Problems in Science and Technology Project of Henan Province, China (Grant No. 202102310262), the Program for Innovative Research Team of Science & Technology of Henan Province, China (Grant No. 19IRTSTHN020), and the Key Research Project of Higher Education Institutions of Henan Province, China (Grant No. 20B580001). |
Corresponding Authors:
Hui Wang
E-mail: huiwang@hainanu.edu.cn
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Cite this article:
Shi-Hao Cao(曹世豪) and Hui Wang(王辉) Characterization of size effect of natural convection in melting process of phase change material in square cavity 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 104403
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