A comparative study of PCM melting process in a heat pipe-assisted LHTES unit enhanced with nanoparticles and metal foams by immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method at pore-scale

Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) has attracted lots of attention due to its nearly constant working temperature and large thermal energy storage density. However, the thermal conductivity of phase change materials (PCMs) is usually low which impedes the heat transfer efficiency in the L…