Thermal performance of a window shutter containing PCM: Numerical validation and experimental analysis

The present paper describes a numerical and experimental testing of a thermal energy storage system (TES) that contains phase change material (PCM). The definitions and assumptions of the developed numerical models to assess the performance and to simulate the thermal energy behavior are presented. The numerical calculation was performed using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, and a real scale test cell with two window shutters, one with and the other without phase change materials, was used to validate the numerical model. The windows shutters were applied into two similar compartments that were tested and the thermal behavior was analyzed.

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