Design of Thermal Initial and Boundary Conditions to Control the Expansion of Water-Based Phase-Change Materials in Low Gravity

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 525-542

  Blackwood, James M ^a   Wessling, Francis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FREEZING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE STATIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

DECOUPLES; GROUND-BASED EXPERIMENTS; LOW GRAVITY; PASSIVE CARRIER;

PHASE CHANGING CIRCUITS;

EID: 33644626950     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780500436907     Document Type: Article

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