Recently, investigators focused on examining the melting of phase change materials (PCM) in regular two-dimensional or three-dimensional flow domains. At the same time, this topic still needs more study to get a better understanding of it. Also, such problems should be reported using the local thermal non-equilibrium (LTNE) model because the latent heat substances and the included porous elements have different temperatures. Therefore, this study examines the three-dimensional flow and melting process of phase change materials (PCM) within cubic enclosures filled with copper foam, using a local thermal non-equilibrium model (LTNE). The system includes two isothermal cylinders with different temperature conditions, varying distances, and radii, placed within the flow domain. The enthalpy-porosity approach is applied to model the PCM behavior, while the Brinkman-extended non-Darcy model accounts for …
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Case Studies inThermal Engineering
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Elsevier
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63
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2024
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105364