Publication detail

Parallel heat transfer model of a panel with phase change material for thermal storage applications computed on graphics processing units

KLIMEŠ, L. CHARVÁT, P. OSTRÝ, M. ŠTĚTINA, J.

Original Title

Parallel heat transfer model of a panel with phase change material for thermal storage applications computed on graphics processing units

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Phase change materials have a wide range of application including thermal energy storage in building structures, solar air collectors, heat storage units and exchangers. Such applications often utilize a commercially produced phase change material enclosed in a thin panel (container) made of aluminum. A parallel 1D heat transfer model of a container with phase change material was developed by means of the control volume and effective heat capacity methods. The parallel implementation in the CUDA computing architecture allows the model for running on graphics processing units which makes the model very fast in comparison to traditional models computed on a single CPU. The paper presents the model implementation and results of computational model benchmarking carried out with the use of high-level and low-level GPUs NVIDIA.

Keywords

heat transfer model, phase change materials, PCM panel, latent heat, thermal energy storage, parallelization, GPGPU, graphics processing units

Authors

KLIMEŠ, L.; CHARVÁT, P.; OSTRÝ, M.; ŠTĚTINA, J.

RIV year

2015

Released

5. 1. 2015

Publisher

Trans Tech Publications

Location

Švýcarsko

ISBN

978-3-03835-369-0

Book

ICMEM 2014

ISBN

1022-6680

Periodical

Advanced Materials Research

Year of study

1077

Number

1

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

118

Pages to

123

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT111108,
  author="Lubomír {Klimeš} and Pavel {Charvát} and Milan {Ostrý} and Josef {Štětina}",
  title="Parallel heat transfer model of a panel with phase change material for thermal storage applications computed on graphics processing units",
  booktitle="ICMEM 2014",
  year="2015",
  journal="Advanced Materials Research",
  volume="1077",
  number="1",
  pages="118--123",
  publisher="Trans Tech Publications",
  address="Švýcarsko",
  doi="10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1077.118",
  isbn="978-3-03835-369-0",
  issn="1022-6680"
}