Abstract: An investigation of a ground thermal energy storage system, which includes storage units containing phase-change materials (PCM), is presented. This study is related to a large-diameter helical ...

Abstract: A multidimensional, finite difference numerical scheme for the freezing process of biological tissues during cryosurgery is presented, which is a modification of an earlier numerical solution for ...

Abstract: A new combined solution of the one-dimensional inverse Stefan problem in biological tissues is presented. The tissue is assumed to be a nonideal material in which phase transition occurs over ...

Abstract: Thermal stresses in an inwardly solidifying sphere are studied analytically. A closed-form solution is given which accounts for thermal expansion associated with temperature gradients and volume ...

Abstract: Thermal expansion data are essential for analyses of cryodestruction associated with thermal stresses during cryopreservation protocols as well as during cryosurgery. The present study tests a ...