Over the years, incredible evolution has been framed in developing particle-induced
discrete simulation techniques over conventional continuum approaches. In particular, the …

The thermal performances of phase change materials (PCMs) are of great importance to
latent heat thermal energy storage applications. In order to improve the thermal properties …

This study investigates the impact of enhancing the convective heat transfer on the Heat
Transfer Fluid (HTF) side by passive flow manipulation on the melting and solidifying …

Abstract Phase Change Materials (PCMs) are frequently employed in thermal management
of systems with high heat fluxes because their high latent heat of phase change limits …

We employ a three-phase thermal lattice Boltzmann model (LBM) to investigate the power
performance of latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) systems based on the …

Nowadays, phase change materials are widespread in different engineering applications
including cooling of electronics, thermal performance in building elements, heat exchangers …

The present study focuses on analyzing the impact of enhancing the heat exchanges on the
shell side by surface extension on the kinetics of melting/solidification in a latent heat …

This work presents an interface-resolved model for simulating the solid-liquid phase
transition problems. In the method, the natural convection flow is handled by the recently …

Evolution of melting boundary in the solid–liquid phase-change problem involves nonplanar
geometry due to the presence of Rayleigh–Benard convective cells in the melted region …

Purpose This paper aims to establish a lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for solid-liquid phase
transition (SLPT) from the pore scale to the representative elementary volume (REV) scale …