This paper is the second portion of a two-part study of the heat transfer characteristics of a shell-tube LTES (latent thermal energy storage) system. The three-dimensional model was used to investigate the discharging characteristics of the LTES system. Pure paraffin and paraffin/expanded...

This paper is the first portion of a two-part study of the heat transfer characteristics of a shell-tube latent thermal energy storage (LTES) system. A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model based on enthalpy method was developed to investigate the charging characteristics of the...