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Effect of different heat transfer fluids on discharging performance of phase change material included cylindrical container during forced convection

强制对流条件下不同传热流体对含相变材料柱形容器放热性能的影响

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In the present work, effects of various heat transfer fluids on the discharging performance of a phase change material (PCM) included cylindrical container are numerically assessed during forced convection. The heat transfer fluid air, hydrogen, water and nanofluid with alumina particles are used and the the geometric variation of the PCM embedded region is also considered. The finite element method is used as the solver. Dynamic features of heat exchange with various phases are explored for different heat transfer fluid types, Reynolds number (between 100 and 300) and PCM embedded region geometric variation (hx between 0.01d1 and 0.65d1, hy between 0.1h1 and 0.4h1). It is observed that discharging time is significantly influenced by the heat transfer fluid type while full phase transition time for air is obtained as more than 10 times when hydrogen is utilized as heat transfer fluid. The best performance is achieved with nanofluid. When the PCM integrated region size is reduced, discharging time is generally reduced while due to the form of the geometry, vortex formation is established in the PCM region. This results in performance degeneration at the highest radius and height of the inner cylinder. Discharging time increases by about 12% when radius of the inner cylinder is increased from hx=0.35d1 to hx=0.45d1. Dynamic features of PCM temperature and liquid fraction are affected with Reynolds number while discharging time is reduced by about 48% when configurations with the lowest and highest Reynolds number are compared.

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本文采用数值模拟方法研究了强制对流条件下不同传热流体对含相变材料柱形容器的放热性能 的影响。以空气、氢、水和含氧化铝颗粒的纳米流体作为传热流体, 同时考虑了含相变材料(PCM)区 域的结构变化, 采用有限元法进行求解。研究了不同传热流体类型、雷诺数(100∼300)和含PCM 区域 结构变化(hx 在0.01d1∼0.65d1, hy 在0.1h1∼0.4h1) 下不同相的换热动力学特征。研究发现, 换热流体类型 对放热时间影响较大, 以空气为换热流体时相变完成时间比以空气为换热流体时的长10 倍以上, 而以 纳米流体为换热流体时的时间最短。当含PCM 区域减小时, 放热时间缩短。含PCM 区域的结构导致 涡流的形成, 这使在内筒的半径和高度最大处的性能下降。当内筒半径从hx =0.35d1 增加到hx =0.45d1 时, 放热时间延长约12%。在不同雷诺数下, PCM 的温度和液体组分的动态特性均受雷诺数的影响, 与最小雷诺数相比, 最大雷诺数下的PCM 的放电时间缩短了48% 左右。

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Abbreviations

k :

Thermal conductivity

H :

Radius of cylinder

L :

Cylinder length

L f :

Latent heat of fusion

n :

Unit normal vector

N :

Number of waves

Nu :

Nusselt number

p :

Pressure

Pr :

Prandtl number

Re :

Reynolds number

T :

Temperature

T m :

Melting temperature

u, v, w :

Velocity components

r, z :

Cylindrical coordinates

ν :

Kinematic viscosity

ρ :

Density of the fluid

ε :

Porosity

κ :

Permeability

φ :

Solid volume fraction

m:

Average

c:

Cold

h:

Hot

nf:

Nanofluid

p:

Solid particle

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SELİMEFENDİGİL Fatih provided the concept, conducted the literature review and performed the numerical simulations. ŞÍRÍN Ceylin edited the draft of manuscript. ÖZTOP Hakan F. performed validation and edited the draft of manuscript.

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Selimefendigil, F., Şirin, C. & Öztop, H.F. Effect of different heat transfer fluids on discharging performance of phase change material included cylindrical container during forced convection. J. Cent. South Univ. 28, 3521–3533 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-021-4872-x

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