Transient behaviours of float zones in μ-g and 1-g environments

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 307-333

  Bazzi, Hussein ^a   Tam Nguyen, Cong ^b   Galanis, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); INDUSTRIAL HEATING; LAMINAR FLOW; MOLTEN MATERIALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SILICON; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACES;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; MARANGONI NUMBER; SILICON FLOAT ZONES; THERMOCAPILLARY LAMINAR FLOW; TRANSIENT FLOW;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0033902135     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530010318026     Document Type: Article

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