Optimal interface for the bridgman crystallization process

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-242

  Irizzary Riuera, Roberto ^a   Seider, Warren D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BRIDGMAN CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; ENERGY TRANSPORT EQUATION; MELT CRYSTAL INTERFACE; MOMENTUM EQUATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 0030086708     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407789608913790     Document Type: Article

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