Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) uses phase change materials (PCMs) to store
and release heat, and can effectively address the mismatch between energy supply and …

In recent years, photovoltaic thermal (PVT) systems have emerged as an imperative
research area due to the escalating demand for energy worldwide. Phase change materials …

Solar energy, as a kind of renewable energy, offers a large reserve to be harvested at a
reasonably low cost for engineering applications. To decouple the temporal and spatial …

This paper introduced a further heat transfer enhancement technique by inserting porous
metal foam into the fin interstitials for a shell-and-tube thermal energy storage unit. The …

Phase change materials used in thermal energy storage systems are critical for energy
utilization. Organic phase change materials have received considerable attention both for …

The current study summarizes previous studies carried out on heat convection, fluid flow,
and entropy generation of porous enclosures filled with hybrid/nanofluid. Newtonian and …

Dispersing thermally conductive nanostructures is an effective method to improve the
thermal performance of phase change materials (PCMs). For this purpose, nanocarbons …

Melting and solidification of pure metals and alloys are important research areas due to their
practical applications, where the study of dynamic evolution of the interface offers a …

Molten salts have been widely used as energy storage materials in medium-and high-
temperature thermal energy storage. However, pure salt commonly suffers from low thermal …

Convective heat transfer is one of the most important mechanisms of heat exchange in many
of industrial devices, which covers a major part of energy-related topics. With providing large …