Modeling of turbulent flow in electromagnetically levitated metal droplets

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B: Process Metallurgy and Materials Processing Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 171-178

  Berry, S ^a   Hyers, R W ^b   Abedian, B ^c,d   Racz, L M ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIQUID METALS; MAGNETIC LEVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NICKEL; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LEVITATION (EML); RENORMALIZATION GROUP (RNG) METHOD;

LEVITATION MELTING;

EID: 0033904850     PISSN: 10735615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11663-000-0142-8     Document Type: Article

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