Abstract
This work proposes a recent model for modelling the Phase Change (PC) phenomenon based on Cellular Automata (CA) of composite and heterogeneous materials with a complex geometry. We aim to describe the temperature distribution and phases (liquid/solid) evolution for multi-components materials. The main idea of this paper is to answer the problem of the high complexity generated when the classical methods for modelling the PC is used in the case of heterogeneous materials and complex geometry. For this purpose, Each cell was associated with a set of attributes that characterize each portion of modelled material, such as thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, material density, a specific material phase change temperature, Latent heat, etc .
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This work has been supported by MESRSFC and CNRST under the project PPR2-OGI-Env, reference PPR2/2016/79.
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Khaddor, Y., Bernoussi, As., Addi, K., Byari, M., Ouardouz, M. (2022). Modeling Phase Change Materials Using Cellular Automata. In: Chopard, B., Bandini, S., Dennunzio, A., Arabi Haddad, M. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13402. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14926-9_16
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