Numerical Investigation of a Prototype Phase Change Material Construction Elements
With the development of modern architecture in buildings, the introduction of thermal engineering has become very widespread, as studies are focused on increasing the utilization of the natural thermal source.Which is the sun, as renewable energy sources have become widely used and benefited from.But solar radiation can be used only from daylight hours, as it is necessary to put it enables us to use the sun’s heat in the night hours.So, phase-changing materials are used that help retain heat by converting its phase from solid to liquid.Where it is solid during daylight hours and after gaining sunlight, it turns into a liquid phase and when the sun sets, it expels that heat in order to return to the solid phase. Where in this research paper, the placement of phase-changing materials inside the wall to maintain room Temp.s during the night was studied. The results show that the greater the thickness of the concrete material, the greater the storage of heat-phase-changing materials after sunset.Therefore, the greater the thickness of the gypsum material, the greater the storage of the gypsum material for heat transmitted from the materials of variable length.And that the best case simulated as results are concrete thickness of 100 mm and thickness of gypsum 15 mm.