Melting driven by natural convection a comparison exercise: First result

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-26

  Bertrand, Olivier ^a   Binet, Bruno ^b   Combeau, Hervé ^c   Couturier, Stéphane ^d   Delannoy, Yves ^e   Gobin, Dominique ^f   Lacroix, Marcel ^b   Le Quéré, Patrick ^g   Médale, Marc ^h   Mencinger, Jure ⁱ   Sadat, Hamou ^d   Vieira, Gisele ^f  

^a Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e EMP Madylam   (France)

^f Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^g UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^h AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Conjugate heat transfer; Moving boundaries; Natural convection; Phase change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001793951     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-3159(99)80013-0     Document Type: Article

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