A combined analytic and numerical method for predicting the solid-layer growth from melt crystallization

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 577-590

  Dai, Weizhong ^a   Feng, Zongwen ^a   Nassar, Raja ^a   Palmer, James ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; HEAT TRANSFER; IMPURITIES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLIDIFICATION;

CRYSTALLIZER MODELS;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 0242552278     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/716100511     Document Type: Article

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