Modeling and Simulation of Phase-Change Materials: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2022) | Viewed by 1391
Special Issue Editor
Interests: heat and mass transfer; energy systems; building simulation; daylighting and renewable energy
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Dear Colleagues,
Thermal energy storage using phase change materials (PCM) is becoming an important feature of energy systems due to an increasing mismatch between power production and consumption. Adjusting the demand side to irregular energy supplies from energy systems, including renewable energy sources, is possible by on-site heat accumulation in any type of PCM reservoirs. Such a storage system can be performed in the form of tanks (local or peripheral) or building components (wall, roof, and window) containing PCM. The behaviour of PCM depends on many factors and can be well predicted by dynamic methods by using computational techniques.
During the last two decades, many leading building energy performance simulation tools were developed towards modeling heat transfer with latent heat storage. Further development of existing computational methods in new and more complex applications as well as model calibration, validation, and verification is necessary to improve the accuracy of performance predictions.
This Special Issue intends to provide current knowledge, latest developments, and future trends in the field of modeling and simulation of phase-change materials and system components.
Topics covered include the following, among others:
- PCM in building fabrics, construction, and insulation composites;
- PCM windows including thermal and optical properties;
- Combined PV-PCM systems including building-integrated PV;
- Solar thermal collectors modified by PCM;
- Thermal energy storage tanks and reservoirs;
- Passive and active walls and facades modified by PCM;
- Hygrothermal behaviour of PCM composites.
Dr. Dariusz Heim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermal energy storage
- latent heat
- phase change material (PCM)
- construction composite
- PCM window
- building envelope
- storage tank
- photovoltaic
- photovoltaic/thermal
- solar collector
- thermal inertia
- solar energy
- integrated energy system
- PCM optimisation
