Superelastic Porous Structures for Efficient Elastocaloric Cooling

Project Information

SUPERCOOL

Grant agreement ID: 803669

DOI 10.3030/803669

Project closed

EC signature date 22 October 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 359 375,00

EU contribution € 1 359 375,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
Slovenia

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Numerical Modeling of Shell-and-Tube-like Elastocaloric Regenerator

Author(s): Žiga Ahčin, Parham Kabirifar, Luka Porenta, Miha Brojan, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Energies, Issue 15 (23), 2022, Page(s) 9253, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en15239253

From the elastocaloric effect toward an efficient thermodynamic cycle

Author(s): Parham Kabirifar; Jonas Trojer; Miha Brojan; Jaka Tušek
Published in: Journal of Physics: Energy, Issue 25157655, 2022, Page(s) 044009, ISSN 2515-7655
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7655/ac92a5

Parametric analysis of fatigue-resistant elastocaloric regenerators: Tensile vs. compressive loading

Author(s): Žiga Ahčin, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Applied Thermal Engineering, Issue 231, 2023, Page(s) 120996, ISSN 1359-4311
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.120996

Experimental investigation of buckling stability of superelastic Ni-Ti tubes under cyclic compressive loading

Author(s): Porenta, Luka; Trojer, Jonas; Brojan, Miha; Tušek, Jaka
Published in: International journal of solids and structures, Issue 00207683, 2022, Page(s) 111948, ISSN 0020-7683
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.111948

Caloric Micro-Cooling: Numerical modelling and parametric investigation

Author(s): Jan Kalizan, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Energy Conversion and Management, Issue 225, 2020, Page(s) 113421, ISSN 0196-8904
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113421

Modeling large deformations of thin-walled SMA structures by shell finite elements

Author(s): Luka Porenta, Marko Lavrenčič, Jaka Dujc, Miha Brojan, Jaka Tušek, Boštjan Brank
Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Issue 101, 2021, Page(s) 105897, ISSN 1007-5704
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.105897

Elastocaloric Cooling: State-of-the-art and Future Challenges in Designing Regenerative Elastocaloric Devices

Author(s): Parham Kabirifar, Andrej Žerovnik, Žiga Ahčin, Luka Porenta, Miha Brojan, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Issue 65/11-12, 2019, Page(s) 615-630, ISSN 0039-2480
Publisher: Univerza v Ljubljani
DOI: 10.5545/sv-jme.2019.6369

High-performance cooling and heat pumping based on fatigue-resistant elastocaloric effect in compression

Author(s): Žiga Ahčin, Stefano Dall’Olio, Andrej Žerovnik, Urban Žvar Baškovič, Luka Porenta, Parham Kabirifar, Jan Cerar, Samo Zupan, Miha Brojan, Jernej Klemenc, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Joule, Issue 25424351, 2022, Page(s) 2338-2357, ISSN 2542-4351
Publisher: Elsevier, Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.08.011

Thin-walled Ni-Ti tubes under compression: ideal candidates for efficient and fatigue-resistant elastocaloric cooling

Author(s): Luka Porenta, Parham Kabirifar, Andrej Žerovnik, Matjaž Čebron, Borut Žužek, Matej Dolenec, Miha Brojan, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Applied Materials Today, Issue 20, 2020, Page(s) 100712, ISSN 2352-9407
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100712

Thermo-hydraulic evaluation of oscillating-flow shell-and-tube-like regenerators for (elasto)caloric cooling

Author(s): Žiga Ahčin, Jierong Liang, Kurt Engelbrecht, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Applied Thermal Engineering, Issue 190, 2021, Page(s) 116842, ISSN 1359-4311
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.116842

Book chapters (1)

A Shell Finite Element Model for Superelasticity of Shape Memory Alloys

Author(s): Luka Porenta, Boštjan Brank, Jaka Dujc, Miha Brojan, Jaka Tušek
Published in: Analysis of Shells, Plates, and Beams - A State of the Art Report, Issue 134, 2020, Page(s) 373-388, ISBN 978-3-030-47490-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47491-1_20