Study of transport phenomena applied to emerging technologies of energy conversion and storage

• Grant number: 22/15765-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2024
• End date: January 31, 2029
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Transport Phenomena
• Principal Investigator: Luben Cabezas Gómez
• Grantee: Luben Cabezas Gómez
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Elaine Maria Cardoso ; Gherhardt Ribatski
• Associated researchers: Cristiano Bigonha Tibirica ; Debora Carneiro Moreira ; Edemar Morsch Filho ; Fabio Toshio Kanizawa ; Guilherme Borges Ribeiro ; Jacqueline Biancon Copetti ; Leonardo Santos de Brito Alves ; Mark Anderson ; Tiago Augusto Moreira ; William Roberto Wolf
• Associated research grant(s): 24/19124-6 - Thermal performance investigations of solid-liquid phase change materials, AP.R SPRINT; 24/17145-6 - Multi-user Equipment approved in grant 2022/15765-1: fiber optic temperature sensor ODiSI 7101, AP.EMU; 24/05252-2 - Multi-user equipment approved in grant 2022/15765-1: subproject 3: PIV temperature LIF system, AP.EMU; 24/02678-9 - Phase change heat transfer in microchannels, AP.R SPRINT
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/20072-0 - Experimental investigation of heat transfer processes for natural convection of supercritical CO2, BP.PD; 24/17893-2 - Experimental Investigation of PCMs with Metal Foams for the Optimization of Thermal Energy Storage Systems, BP.PD; 24/14464-3 - Numerical implementation of conjugate heat transfer mechanism for simulating phase change with phase-field lattice Boltzmann method, BP.IC; 24/12388-8 - Study of boiling processes with the phase field lattice Boltzmann method at almost critical reduced temperatures, BP.DD; 24/08730-2 - Direct numerical simulations and reduced order models for supercritical fluids at rest and in motion, BP.PD

Abstract

The present proposal deals with experimental evaluation and modeling of transport phenomena typical of emerging technologies in the area of energy conversion and storage involving phase change and/or supercritical flows. These emerging technologies are related to thermohydraulic analysis of heat transfer processes including flows under supercritical thermodynamic conditions in nuclear reactors and Brayton cycle heat exchangers of concentrated solar power systems, quasi-critical two-phase flows in heat exchangers employed in organic Rankine cycles (ORC), and melting/solidification processes in thermo-accumulators. These processes involve transport phenomena under atypical operational conditions concerning the current employed technologies, and for this reason the project is focused on providing fundamental insights into the physical mechanisms occurring in the related transport phenomena through experimental tests and numerical simulations employing up-to-date techniques. Therefore, it is expected that the execution of the present proposal has great potential of expanding the frontier of knowledge by proposing semi-empirical prediction methods and numerical models that can be incorporated into design projects, and collaborate to the development of the mentioned emerging technologies. Moreover, the results obtained from the proposed study are significantly promising due to the possibility of being used as benchmarking to validate and develop current software employed in the design of such devices. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARTINS, I. T.; GOMEZ, L. CABEZAS; ALVARINO, P. FARINAS. Parametric investigation of Rayleigh-Taylor instability under experimental conditions with the lattice Boltzmann method. Physics of Fluids, v. 37, n. 2, p. 14-pg., 2025-02-01. (22/15765-1, 23/02383-6)

MATSUDA, VINICIUS AKYO; MARTINS, IVAN TALAO; MOREIRA, DEBORA CARNEIRO; CABEZAS-GOMEZ, LUBEN; BANDARRA FILHO, ENIO PEDONE. A Modified Enthalpic Lattice Boltzmann Method for Simulating Conjugate Heat Transfer Problems in Non-Homogeneous Media. INVENTIONS, v. 9, n. 3, p. 24-pg., 2024-06-01. (22/15765-1, 23/02383-6, 22/12257-5)

MARTINS, IVAN TALAO; MATSUDA, VINICIUS AKYO; CABEZAS-GOMEZ, LUBEN. A new Neumann boundary condition scheme for the thermal lattice Boltzmann method. INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS IN HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, v. 156, p. 19-pg., 2024-06-12. (22/12257-5, 23/02383-6, 16/09509-1, 22/15765-1)

GUZELLA, MATHEUS DOS SANTOS; CABEZAS-GOMEZ, LUBEN. Pseudopotential Lattice Boltzmann Method Simulation of Boiling Heat Transfer at Different Reduced Temperatures. FLUIDS, v. 10, n. 4, p. 30-pg., 2025-04-01. (22/15765-1)

BARBOSA, F.; NOBREGA, G.; SOUZA, R. R.; RALHA, R. P.; CARDOSO, E. M.; PEREIRA, J. E.; AFONSO, I. S.; MARQUES, F.; TEIXEIRA, J. C. F.; LIMA, R.; et al. Heat transfer experimental and numerical study of a three-sided serpentine with the operating fluid directly contacting the PV cell back. CASE STUDIES IN THERMAL ENGINEERING, v. 61, p. 16-pg., 2024-08-29. (19/02566-8, 20/03907-0, 22/03946-1, 22/15765-1, 19/13895-2, 13/15431-7)

DE OLIVEIRA, JEFERSON DIEHL; DA SILVA, ISABELA IGNACIO; DE ANDRADE, BRUNO ALVES; CARDOSO, ELAINE MARIA. Analysis of vapor bubble diameter, departure frequency and dynamics in a single cavity. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, v. 233, p. 13-pg., 2024-08-05. (19/02566-8, 20/03907-0, 22/03946-1, 22/15765-1, 19/13895-2, 13/15431-7)

MARSON, VINICIUS; DOS SANTOS, GABRIEL BERTACCO; MORSCH FILHO, EDEMAR; CARDOSO, ELAINE MARIA. Evaluating the impact of the air domain on CFD simulations of photovoltaic panels coupled with phase change materials. JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE, v. 130, p. 10-pg., 2025-09-15. (24/00620-3, 13/15431-7, 22/15765-1, 19/02566-8)