Influence of Marangoni flow on the melting process

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 622-623

  Lin, Xueping ^a   Peng, Xiaofeng ^a   Wang, Buxuan ^a   Christopher David, M ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Marangoni flow; Moving boundary; Phase change; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOUS FLOW;

MARANGONI FLOWS; MELTING PROCESS; MOVING BOUNDARIES; NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE CHANGE PROBLEM; QUASI-STEADY STATE; SOLID LIQUID PHASE CHANGE; STEADY-STATE METHOD; SURFACE TENSION GRADIENT;

SPACE SHUTTLES;

EID: 0001007054     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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