Phase change materials (PCMs) are extensively used in many engineering areas for thermal management purposes. This paper investigated the application of PCMs for vehicular systems, especially for the thermal protection of vehicle lighting systems based on light emitting diodes (LEDs). Lighting systems based on LEDs offer many advantages, however, also pose a smaller margin of error for thermal management. This paper analyzed the combined use of PCMs with metal foam for cooling systems. The cooling performance was studied numerically under different porosity values of the metal foam, and different boundary conditions. The cooling performance was also compared to a solid metal sink system (SMS) and was found to offer several distinct cooling characteristics.


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    Title :

    Numerical Investigation of Phase Change Materials for Thermal


    Additional title:

    Sae Int. J. Mater. Manf
    Sae International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing


    Contributors:
    Ewing, David J. (author) / Ma, Lin (author) / Aldoss, Taha (author) / Zhao, Yan (author)

    Conference:

    SAE World Congress & Exhibition ; 2009



    Publication date :

    2009-04-20


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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