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Energy-efficient concrete roofs for buildings: Integrating macroencapsulated nano-enhanced PCMs for hot climate adaptation

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Direct sunlight on concrete roofs raises interior heat flow and cooling demands. Latent heat storage with phase change materials (PCMs) offers passive cooling, but nanomaterials are needed to improve their low thermal conductivity.
Peerzada Jaffar Abass, S. Muthulingam
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Melting kinetics of PCM under synergistic effects of passive nanoparticle addition and active electric field exposure

Energy Conversion and Management: X
Present study numerically investigates the impact of electric field exposure and nanoparticle addition on the melting kinetics of a phase change material (PCM), crucial for cooling and energy storage applications.
R. Deepak Selvakumar, Jian Wu, Ahmed K. Alkaabi   +2 more
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A second law analysis on flow of a PCM based nanofluid in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger: An experimental study for sustainable energy

Results in Engineering
In the foreseeable future, heat exchangers will continue to play an important role in environmental management and have numerous applications, their geometry has been the subject of interest for many researchers.
H. Keshavarz, Amir Heydarinasab, Ali Vaziri, Mehdi Ardjmand   +3 more
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Thermophoresis effects on double-diffusive convection and entropy in a wavy enclosure with NEPCM

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
This study explores double-diffusive natural convection and entropy generation in a wavy enclosure filled with nanoencapsulated phase change materials (NEPCMs), considering the thermophoretic effect. The examined physical domain is a sinusoidally heated wavy enclosure, characterized by wavy lateral walls on the left and right, with flat upper and lower
Sharaban Thohura, Md. Mamun Molla
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Double diffusion of nano-enhanced phase change materials in connected porous channels: A hybrid ISPH-XGBoost approach

Nanotechnology Reviews
This study investigates the double-diffusion phenomenon of nano-enhanced phase change material within connected porous channels using a hybrid incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ISPH) method and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) machine ...
Alotaibi Munirah, Alhejaili Weaam, Aly Abdelraheem M.   +2 more
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Numerical analysis of coupled fluid-structure interaction in magnetohydrodynamic flow and phase change process of nano-encapsulated phase change material systems with deformable heated surface

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
This study investigates the fluid-structure interaction and heat transfer characteristics of nano-encapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free convection system with a flexible wall.
Ahmed M. Hassan, Mohammed Azeez Alomari, Abdalrahman Alajmi, Abdellatif M. Sadeq, Faris Alqurashi, Mujtaba A. Flayyih, Oguzhan Kazaz   +6 more
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ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, Volume 9, Issue 3, May 2026.
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ISPH simulation and XGBoost prediction of double diffusion of NEPCM with sloshing fins under thermal radiation, Soret, and Dufour effects

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
This work develops an integrated framework combining incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ISPH) and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) to analyze double-diffusive convection of nano-encapsulated phase change materials (NEPCM) in a porous ...
Muhanna Ali H. Alrashdi, Azza M. Algatheem, Munirah Aali Alotaibi, Abdelraheem M. Aly   +3 more
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Multi Objective Optimization of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger with PCM Based Nanofluid Using Exergy Analyses and Adoptive Genetic Algorithm [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
In this research, a new design approach for shell and tube heat exchanger optimization design based on NEPCM nanofluid and applying adoptive genetic algorithm has been developed.
Hadi Keshavarz, Amir Heydarinasab, Ali Vaziri, Mehdi Ardjmand   +3 more
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Analysis of NePCM melting flow inside a trapezoidal enclosure with hot cylinders: Effects of hot cylinders configuration and slope angle

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Hot cylinders within the cavity can find diverse thermal applications, ranging from electronic devices and heat exchangers to solar systems, nuclear reactors, and the thermal design of passive cooling systems.
Nidhal Ben Khedher, S.A.M. Mehryan, Mohammad Shahabadi, Amira M. Hussin, Abed Saif Alghawli, Mohsen Sharifpur   +5 more
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