Flow and heat transfer in convection-dominated melting in a rectangular cavity heated from below

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2573-2580

  Gong, Zhen Xiang ^a   Mujumdar, Arun S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; GALERKIN METHODS; HEATING; NATURAL CONVECTION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BOUSSINESQ ASSUMPTION; PURE PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS (PCM); RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STREAMLINE UPWIND/PETROV GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

MELTING;

CAVITY; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MELTING;

CAVITIES; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MELTING;

EID: 0032169920     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00374-8     Document Type: Article

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