Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : October 20, 2018 - October 21, 2018
Effects of permeability and porosity of the porous metal fins installed in a rectangular enclosure on the solidification process are investigated by dimensionless numerical analysis. Specifically, the thermal storage capacity in PCM and the time to complete freezing are examined in this paper. Comparing porous metal fins and solid fins, Porous fins with large porosity was inferior to solid fins, however we confirmed that porous metal fins with small porosity have an advantage in thermal storage. In addition, we researched about an optimal porous metal fins geometry on thermal storage capacity, as compared with the case where whole enclosure is filled with a porous metal
