Predicting natural-convection-dominated phase change problems by control volume unstructured triangular grid: Applications to the melting of pure metal

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 299-314

  Hong, Zuu Chang ^a   Liou, Ienq Hwu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GALLIUM; METAL MELTING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONTROL VOLUME METHOD; FIXED GRID METHOD; UNSTRUCTURED TRIANGULAR GRID;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0031994979     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407789808913940     Document Type: Article

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