Models for the growth of rime, glaze, icicles and wet snow on structures

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1776, 2000, Pages 2913-2939

  Makkonen, Lasse ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ice; Ice accretion; Icicles; Icing; Modelling; Structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346672676     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0690     Document Type: Article

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