Enhanced heat transfer in free convection-dominated melting in a rectangular cavity with an isothermal vertical wall

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1237-1251

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

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; HEAT STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; PHASE INTERFACES; POROSITY; WALL FLOW;

PETROV-GALERKIN METHOD; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; STREAMLINE UPWIND METHOD;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0032674569     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(99)00003-4     Document Type: Article

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