Enthalpy-porosity technique for modeling convection-diffusion phase change: Application to the melting of a pure metal

Numerical Heat Transfer

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 297-318

  Brent, A D ^a   Voller, V R ^a   Reid, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER - CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; METALS AND ALLOYS - MELTING; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

CONVECTION-DIFFUSION PHASE CHANGE; ENTHALPY-POROSITY TECHNIQUE;

GALLIUM AND ALLOYS;

EID: 0023826230     PISSN: 01495720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407788808913615     Document Type: Article

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