Thermal behavior of PCM building material under periodic convection boundary conditions

Author

Ahmed, Arid ; Tarik, Kousksou ; Youssef, Zeraouli ; Amine, Allouhi ; Tarik, El-Rhafiki

Author_Institution

Lab. des Sci. de l´Ingenieur Appl. a la Mec. et au Genie Electr. (SIAME), Univ. de Pau et des Pays de l´Adour, Pau, France

fYear

2014

Firstpage

505

Lastpage

510

Abstract

Thermal behavior of building material using Phase Change Material (PCM) is investigated numerically and compared with traditional building materials. The energy equations for transient thermal analysis with associated periodic convection boundary conditions is solved numerically using two temperature model with the finite control volume approach following the Thomas algorithm. Good agreement between numerical results and physical reality for the melting/solidification process are obtained. A parametric study with different associated parameters is realized and results are presented.

Keywords

building materials; convection; finite volume methods; phase change materials; thermal analysis; thermal energy storage; PCM building material; Thomas algorithm; energy equations; finite control volume approach; melting process; periodic convection boundary conditions; phase change material; solidification process; temperature model; thermal behavior; transient thermal analysis; Building materials; Heat transfer; Heating; Phase change materials; Surface waves; Temperature; Building construction; Heat Transfer; Phase change material; periodic boundary conditions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC), 2014 International

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7335-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRSEC.2014.7059792

Filename

7059792