ABSTRACT
Phase change materials (PCMs) are a contemporary group of energy loading materials to hoard heating and cooling energy as sensible, structural, and latent heats. PCMs storing latent heat delivers colossal thermal energy within a narrow temperature range between loading and discharge. Heat transfer augmentation methods for PCMs involve protracted surfaces, nanoparticles, fibrous, and porous materials (foams), surface, and structural modifications. The studies on numerical simulation of thermal behaviors of PCMs during loading and discharge have been led by standard heat and mass transfer governing equations.
