Experimental Study on the Melting Heat Transfer Characteristics of Paraffin/Copper Foam Composite[J]. 2020, 54(3): 188-196.
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Experimental Study on the Melting Heat Transfer Characteristics of Paraffin/Copper Foam Composite[J]. 2020, 54(3): 188-196.DOI: 10.7652/xjtuxb202003023.
Experimental Study on the Melting Heat Transfer Characteristics of Paraffin/Copper Foam Composite
To explore the melting behavior of copper foam composite materials
a visuali-ed phase-change thermal storage experimental setup was built. Foamed copper phase change materials with different thickness were prepared. The changes of the melting interface were studied by experiments
and the internal temperature distributions of pure phase-change materials and composite phase-change materials were compared. The effect of metal foam thickness on the heat transfer intensity was analy-ed. The experimental results show that natural convection plays a leading role in the melting process of pure phase-change materials. The 5 mm-thick metal foam promotes the natural convection of the upper paraffin
however the metal foam with the thickness of 10
15 or 20 mm inhibits the natural convection of paraffin. The larger the thickness of copper foam
the greater the heat conduction intensity. There is a negative correlation between the convection heat transfer intensity and conduction heat transfer in
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