Model and powder particle heating, melting, resolidification, and evaporation in plasma spraying processes

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 691-699

  Wan, Y P ^a   Prasad, V ^a   Wang, G X ^a,c   Sampath, S ^a   Fincke, J R ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Heat transfer; Melting; Modeling; Plasma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EVAPORATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MELTING; PLASMA SPRAYING; POWDERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOLIDIFICATION;

RESOLIDIFICATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE LAVA;

HEAT CONDUCTION;

EVAPORATION; HEATING; MELTING; PLASMA JET; SOLIDIFICATION; SPRAYING;

EID: 0033406649     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2826034     Document Type: Article

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