Melting of a phase change material in concentric horizontal annuli of arbitrary cross-section

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 893-912

  Khillarkar, D B ^a   Gong, Z X ^b   Mujumdar, A S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Hyprotech Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT FLUX; ISOTHERMS; NATURAL CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

MELTING;

EID: 0033897528     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(99)00058-7     Document Type: Article

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