Phase Change Phenomena in a Decarbonizing World

Processes involving phase change are critically important in a wide variety of electrification and decarbonization technologies. The phase change occurring in these systems is governed by hydrodynamic, interfacial, and intermolecular forces that drive the exchange of mass, momentum and energy between the phases. This GRC and associated GRS are focused on fundamental mechanisms governing phase change processes and how these mechanisms interact to prescribe how component technologies and systems can be designed and run in a decarbonizing world. Topics within the conference include processes occurring at the three-phase contact line, the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase change materials and thermochemical energy storage media, the design of materials and surfaces using advanced manufacturing techniques which are able to control phase change, advances in the simulation and numerical modeling of phase change processes, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods for characterizing and predicting phase change mechanisms, new and novel experimental methods for measuring the extent of phase change, and phase change processes occurring in novel refrigerant working fluids relevant to decarbonization.