Critical review on wax deposition in single-phase flow

C van der Geest, A Melchuna, L Bizarre, AC Bannwart… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Wax deposition is a costly problem for the O & G industry, especially for pipelines in cold
environments. For at least three decades, the scientific community has overwhelmingly …

A review of the recent advances in the heat transfer physics in latent heat storage systems

KP Sarath, MF Osman, R Mukhesh, KV Manu… - Thermal Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overwhelming research interest in developing green and renewable energy systems has
fostered the innovation of novel latent heat storage systems. Transport phenomena during …

The fluid mechanics of cleaning and decontamination of surfaces

JR Landel, DI Wilson - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The removal of unwanted entities or soiling material from surfaces is an essential operation
in many personal, industrial, societal, and environmental applications. The use of liquid …

Mathematical solutions and numerical models employed for the investigations of PCMs׳ phase transformations

S Liu, Y Li, Y Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable energy reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) has recently attracted increasing interest
related to the thermal applications, and has been studied by researchers using theoretical …

Melting of nano-PCM in an enclosed space: Scale analysis and heatline tracking

M Al-Jethelah, SH Tasnim, S Mahmud… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanoparticle enhanced phase change material (or nano-PCM) is an attractive option to
enhance the performance of thermal energy storage systems (eg, solar-thermal energy …

A comprehensive benchmark of fixed-grid methods for the modeling of melting

A König-Haagen, E Franquet, E Pernot… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Numerical simulation of melting processes is known to be tricky yet due to new application
fields they raise again the attention of both, researchers and engineers. Several approaches …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling of thermal phenomena in single laser beam and laser-arc hybrid welding processes using projection method

W Piekarska, M Kubiak - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper concerns mathematical and numerical modeling of thermal phenomena
accompanying single laser and laser-arc hybrid butt welding of steel sheets. Coupled heat …

A combined technique using phase change material and jet impingement heat transfer for the exhaust heat recovery applications–A numerical approach

KJ Bharanitharan, SW Kang, KJ Sanjay… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the development of industries and automobiles requires developing a new
system to recover exhaust heat emitted from these sources. Phase change materials are …

2D and 3D lattice Boltzmann simulation for natural convection melting

W Zhu, M Wang, H Chen - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, the solid-liquid phase change problems are investigated by the lattice
Boltzmann method. The flow field and the temperature field are solved by the MRT and …

Silicon as high-temperature phase change medium for latent heat storage: A thermo-hydraulic study

AK Ray, D Rakshit, KR Kumar, H Gurgenci - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Latent heat storage (LHS) using high-temperature phase change medium (PCM) can
provide cost-competitive solutions for dispatchable solar power and accumulate surplus …