| Reference | Description of the study | Frequency, power, intensity | Best and/or interesting result obtained |
| Fairbanks [27] | Radiation (Sun and infrared) into water, conduction into metal, melting heterogeneous system | 50 kHz, 61 W (radiation); 20 kHz, 250 W (melting); 20 kHz, 75 W (conduction) | Radiation: double heat transfer rate, conduction: 3.55 times thermal conductivity, melting rate doubled | Inada et al. [31] | Experimental, phase change from supercooled water to ice, acoustic cavitation, pure water and tap water | 28 kHz, 0–6.5 kW m−2 | Important decrease of supercooling with ultrasound for both types of water | Oh et al. [10] | Melting of paraffin in a tank with constant heat flux, acoustic streaming, cavitation, experimental and modelling study | 40 kHz, 70–340 W | Melting time 72 min with 340 W ultrasonic power instead of 275 min without ultrasound | Zhang et al. [32] | Experimental study, probability of water phase change with number of bubble nuclei, cavitation, square vessel, transducer at the bottom | 39 kHz, 4.4 kW m−2 | Probability of phase change increased with number of bubble nuclei and pressure amplitude |
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