Numerical simulation of natural convection-dominated melting and solidification from a finned vertical wall

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-86

  Lacroix, M ^a   Benmadda, M ^a  

^a Faculté des Sciences Appliquées   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; MELTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIMULATION; SOLIDIFICATION;

FINNED VERTICAL WALL; NATURAL CONVECTION-DOMINATED MELTING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0030835173     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407789708914026     Document Type: Article

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