Experimental and numerical study of melting in a cylinder

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 49, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 2724-2738

  Jones, Benjamin J ^a   Sun, Dawei ^a   Krishnan, Shankar ^a   Garimella, Suresh V ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark experiments; Melting; Natural convection; Paraffin; Phase change material; Solid liquid phase change

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CYLINDERS (CONTAINERS); NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAFFINS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

BENCHMARK EXPERIMENTS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SOLID-LIQUID PHASE CHANGE; STEFAN NUMBER;

MELTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CYLINDERS (CONTAINERS); MELTING; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAFFINS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

ALKANES; CONVECTION; CYLINDERS; MELTING;

EID: 33646574992     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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