Publication detail

An accuracy analysis of the front tracking method and interface capturing methods for the solution of heat transfer problems with phase changes

KLIMEŠ, L. MAUDER, T. CHARVÁT, P. ŠTĚTINA, J.

English title

An accuracy analysis of the front tracking method and interface capturing methods for the solution of heat transfer problems with phase changes

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

Materials undergoing a phase change have a number of applications in practice and engineering. Computer simulation tools are often used for investigation of such heat transfer problems with phase changes since they are fast and relatively not expensive. However, a crucial issue is the accuracy of these simulation tools. Numerical methods from the interface capturing category are frequently applied. Such approaches, however, allow for only approximate tracking of the interface between the phases. The paper presents an accuracy analysis and comparison of two widely used interface capturing methods—the enthalpy and the effective heat capacity methods—with the front tracking algorithm. A paraffin-based phase change material is assumed in the study. Computational results show that the front tracking algorithm provides a significantly higher accuracy level than the considered interface capturing methods.

English abstract

Materials undergoing a phase change have a number of applications in practice and engineering. Computer simulation tools are often used for investigation of such heat transfer problems with phase changes since they are fast and relatively not expensive. However, a crucial issue is the accuracy of these simulation tools. Numerical methods from the interface capturing category are frequently applied. Such approaches, however, allow for only approximate tracking of the interface between the phases. The paper presents an accuracy analysis and comparison of two widely used interface capturing methods—the enthalpy and the effective heat capacity methods—with the front tracking algorithm. A paraffin-based phase change material is assumed in the study. Computational results show that the front tracking algorithm provides a significantly higher accuracy level than the considered interface capturing methods.

Keywords in English

phase change, heat transfer, front tracking method

Released

19.06.2016

Publisher

IOP Publishing

ISSN

1742-6588

Book

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volume

745

Number

1

Pages from–to

1–8

Pages count

8

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT126670,
  author="Lubomír {Klimeš} and Tomáš {Mauder} and Pavel {Charvát} and Josef {Štětina},
  title="An accuracy analysis of the front tracking method and interface capturing methods for the solution of heat transfer problems with phase changes",
  booktitle="Journal of Physics: Conference Series",
  year="2016",
  volume="745",
  number="1",
  month="June",
  pages="1--8",
  publisher="IOP Publishing",
  issn="1742-6588"
}