Three-Dimensional Printed Insulation For Dynamic Thermoelectric Harvesters With Encapsulated Phase Change Materials

Nano-Encapsulated Smart Tunable Phase Change Materials

Solidfication of Phase Change Materials Encapsulated in Vertical Tubes

Solidification of phase change materials encapsulated in a vertical shell which contains also the heat transfer fluid tubes is studied using a fixed grid numerical model. The solution of the system consists of adopting a velocity field of a complete developed flow coupled with the energy equations of the heat transfer fluid (HTF), the pipe wall and the phase change material (PCM). The control v...

New Directions for Low-Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials

Providing a sustainable supply of energy to the world’s population will become a major societal problem for the 21st century as fossil fuel supplies decrease and world demand increases. Thermoelectric phenomena, which involve the conversion between thermal and electrical energy, and provide a method for heating and cooling materials, are expected to play an increasingly important role in meetin...

NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR DIFFERENT THERMAL INSULATION MATERIALS

The objective of this work is to predict the temperature of the different types of walls which are Ferro cement wall, reinforced cement concrete (RCC) wall and two types of cavity walls (combined RCC with Ferrocement and combined two Ferro cement walls) with the help of mathematical modeling. The property of low thermal transmission of small air gap between the constituents of combine materials...

Theory of three-dimensional nanocrescent light harvesters.

The optical properties of three-dimensional crescent-shaped gold nanoparticles are studied using a transformation optics methodology. The polarization insensitive, highly efficient, and tunable light harvesting ability of singular nanocrescents is demonstrated. We extend our approach to more realistic blunt nanostructures, showing the robustness of their plasmonic performance against geometric ...