Changing the physical behavior of phase change material by means of numerical technique

Numerical simulation was offered for scrutinizing the freezing of water within the complex container. The container has elliptic left adiabatic wall while the right wall is sinusoidal wall and maintained at cold temperature. The drawback of water has been removed by adding alumina nanoparticles. For this modeling, different ranges of volume and shape factor of nanoparticles have been scrutinized by incorporating FEM. The configuration of grid alters with change of time and verification test has been presented which proved good accuracy. As bigger shape factor has been selected, the time of process decline less than 4% for cylinder shape and this percentage augments around 78.22% for blade shape. As nanoparticle fraction increases, the required time declines around 26.84%. The impact of blade shape in view of adding nanoparticles is 25.74% greater than that of cylinder shape.