Melting And Simulation of 2-D Rectangular PCM Domain Having Two Side Constant Heat Flux and Other Two Side Insulated Using Ansys Fluent

Authors

  • Ashutosh Kumar, Suman Kumar Saurabh

Keywords:

phase change material (PCM), Thermal energy, Heat flux

Abstract

In this paper we study and analyses the behavior of thermal energy storage using phase change material (PCM). This paper represents the numerical study and simulation of a phase change material using analytical software. The melting of a rectangular 2-D domain (100mm*150mm) whose left and top side is insulated and other two side bottom and right side is perfectly insulated is simulated by ANSYS FLUENT 19.0 software. The assumption, material properties, equations that uses the ANSYS software is discussed in this paper, mainly energy equations uses the enthalpy equation in ANSYS software. In enthalpy equation both sensible and latent energy is used to melt the PCM. The contour of liquid fraction, temperature, density and velocity of a two side PCM rectangular domain at a regular interval of a 15 minutes is represented a total melting time of a 120 minute (2 hours). With the help of a contour we can find the change of shape and motion of melting interference with increase in time. The PCM started to melt after heat flux given and it melts 12% in 15 minutes. It takes 120 minutes to complete melting of PCM rectangular domain. A mushy zone that separates the solid PCM and liquid PCM. This paper represents the % of melting of rectangular domain with respect to the increase in time.

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25.08.2023

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Ashutosh Kumar. (2023). Melting And Simulation of 2-D Rectangular PCM Domain Having Two Side Constant Heat Flux and Other Two Side Insulated Using Ansys Fluent. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 11(10s), 1037 –. Retrieved from https://www.ijisae.org/index.php/IJISAE/article/view/8071

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Vol. 11 No. 10s (2023)

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