Application of BEM and sensitivity analysis to the solution of the governing diffusion-convection equation for a continuous casting process

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 389-403

  Cholewa, Robert ^a   Nowak, Andrzej J ^a   Wrobel, Luiz C ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Continuous casting; Diffusion convection; Sensitivity coefficients

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COOLING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DIFFUSION-CONVECTION; SENSITIVITY COEFFICIENTS;

CONTINUOUS CASTING;

EID: 1642413030     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-7997(03)00086-9     Document Type: Article

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