Abstract

Development of numerical code for evaluating the solidification of water has been scrutinized in this work. The container has two circular and sinusoidal cold walls at bottom and top surfaces. Galerkin-based code has been employed to model this phenomenon. To elevate the conductivity of phase change material (PCM), alumina particles with nanosized were utilized with incorporating different shapes. The conductivity of nanoencapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) is a function of concentration and shapes of nanoparticles. The freezing process is mainly dominated by conduction and selecting curved shaped and adding nanoparticles can affect this mechanism. Verification test reveals the good accommodation and applying adaptive grids leads to higher accuracy. As shape coefficient increases, the period of process declines around 10.65% owing to stronger conduction. Also, mixing water with alumina nanopowders with blade shape causes decrement in needed time around 32.51%. Besides, outputs reveal that utilizing blade shape of powders has more effect on required time than that of cylindrical shape.

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