Development of plug-ins to predict effective thermal conductivity of woven and microencapsulated phase change composite

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 733-743
Author(s):  
Muhammad Owais Raza Siddiqui ◽  
Danmei Sun

The thermal property of textile structures plays an important role in the understanding of thermal behaviour of the clothing. In this work, user-friendly GUI plug-ins have been developed to generate both microscopic and mesoscopic scale models for finite element analysis. The plug-ins were developed by using Abaqus/CAE as a platform. The GUI Plug-ins enable automatic model generation and prediction of the effective thermal conductivity of woven composite and microencapsulated Phase Change Materials composites via finite element analysis by applying boundary conditions. The predicted effective thermal conductivities from plug-ins have been compared with the results obtained from published experimental research work based on an established mathematical model. They are correlated well. Moreover, the influence of phase change materials on heat transfer behaviour of microencapsulated Phase Change Materials composites was further analysed.

2019 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 111221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zahid ◽  
Rajneesh Sharma ◽  
Atul Ramesh Bhagat ◽  
Syed Abbas ◽  
Ajay Kumar ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 497 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
You Yin ◽  
Sumio Hosaka

Performance of lateral phase change memories (LPCMs) is investigated by both electrical characterization and finite element analysis. Ge2Sb2Te5 lateral PCMs (GST-LPCMs) exhibit a low reset current but a bad endurance. By replacing GST with Sb2Te3 (ST) and adding a TiN layer between ST and electrodes, the ST-TiN-LPCMs are demonstrated to have a much improved endurance. Finite element analysis of the LPCMs with electric-thermal structural interaction shows that thermal confinement makes GST-LPCMs low-power consumptive but that high level stress makes them readily broken. In contrast, ST-TiN-LPCMs experience low level stress during operation but high power consumption is required.


2013 ◽  
Vol 750-752 ◽  
pp. 1211-1214
Author(s):  
Shu Yang

Phase change material has been widely used in the fields of solar energy, aerospace, aviation, and buildings. In this paper, paraffin is applied in the thermal design of electronic equipment, in order to maintain a constant working circumstance. Finite-element analysis is implemented to analyze the feasibility of this thermal design.


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