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The bottleneck in modern thermoelectric power generation and cooling is the low energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. The detrimental effects of lattice phonons on performance can be mitigated, but achieving a high…
Cold storage is a persistent constraint in sub-Saharan African informal food systems, where perishables are traded in open-air markets with intermittent electricity and grid-tied or battery-heavy cold chains are too costly to scale. We…
Thermal convection stands out as an exceptionally efficient thermal transport mechanism, distinctly separate from conduction and radiation. Yet, the inherently elusive nature of fluid motion poses challenges in accurately controlling…
Growth of intermittent renewable energy and climate change make it increasingly difficult to manage electricity demand variability. Centralized storage can help but is costly. An alternative is to shift demand. Cooling and heating demands…
When modelling phase change, the latent heat released (absorbed) during solidification (melting) must be included in the heat transfer equation. In this paper, different SPH methods for the implementation of latent heat, in the context of…
Hydraulic accumulators play a central role as energy storage in nearly all fluid power systems. The accumulators serve as pulsation dampers or energy storage devices in hydro-pneumatic suspensions. The energy carrying gas is compressed and…
Harvesting waste heat with temperatures lower than 100 oC can improve system efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet it has been a longstanding and challenging task. Electrochemical methods for harvesting low-grade heat have…
Battery thermal management system is an indispensable part of the electric vehicles working with Lithium-ion batteries. Accordingly, lithium-ion batteries modeling, battery heat generation, and thermal management are the main focus of…
The theoretical study of laser-induced heating of a transport cargo microcontainer constituting a hollow dielectric microcapsule with water filling and a light absorbing polymer shell is presented. By means of FDTD and FEM techniques, the…
New method to simulate heat transport in multiphase lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is proposed. The energy transport equation needs to be solved when phase boundaries are present. Internal energy is represented by an additional set of…
Increasing penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) and electrification of energy systems necessitates the engagement of demand-side management (DSM) to help alleviate congestion in electricity grid. Heat pump and thermal energy…
Generation of thermal convection flow in the liquid metal battery, a device recently proposed as a promising solution for the problem of the short-term energy storage, is analyzed using a numerical model. It is found that convection caused…
The present article discusses the impact of liquid coolant subcooling on multiphase fluid flow and boiling heat transfer in porous media with internal heat generation. Although extremely relevant and important, only limited studies are…
We leverage a large set of numerical simulations to study optimized geometrical configurations for Phase Change Materials (PCMs) cells. We consider a PCM cell as a square enclosure with a solid substance that undergoes melting under the…
The switchable optical and electrical properties of phase change materials (PCMs) are finding new applications beyond data storage in reconfigurable photonic devices. However, high power heat pulses are needed to melt-quench the material…
In this paper, the energy non-conservation problem of the hybrid thermal LB phase change model is emphasized. To solve this problem, an infinite volume discrete scheme is introduced to deal with the diffusion term in the energy equation.…
This article proposes an offline Energy Management System (EMS) for Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs). Dividing the torque between the Electric Motor (EM) and the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) requires a suitable EMS. Batteries…
This study investigates one of the possible approaches of improvement of heat exchangers efficiency. Literature review shows that most approaches of improvement are based on the heat transfer surface increasing and laminar-to-turbulent flow…
Multi Layer Capacitors MLCs are considered as the most promising refrigerant elements to design and develop electrocaloric cooling devices. Recently, the heat transfer of these MLCs has been considered. However, the heat exchange with the…
A thermo-mechanical model describing hydrogen storage by use of metal hydrides has been recently proposed in a paper by Bonetti, Fr\'emond and Lexcellent. It describes the formation of hydrides using the phase transition approach. By virtue…