Abstract
Ice slurry has been widely utilized as thermal storage medium because of its high storage density of thermal energy. In the direct contact heat exchange process between ice slurry and a heated surface, its high storage density would not be fully used because the ice particles may not contact to the heated surface so well. In the present study, impinging flow of ice slurry into the main flow has been adopted as the method to enhance the melting of ice particles in the ice slurry. A Moving Particle Semi-implicit method has been employed to predict the movement and melting characteristics of ice particles. The effectiveness of the impinging flow for the enhancement of melting of ice particles in an ice-slurry was investigated in detail.
