Meshless local radial basis function collocation method for convective-diffusive solid-liquid phase change problems

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 617-640

  Vertnik, Robert ^a   Šarler, Božidar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Convection; Diffusion; Liquids; Meshes; Solids

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFUSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; LIQUIDS; METAL CASTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SOLIDS;

MESHES; MESHLESS LOCAL RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION; NONLINEAR MATERIAL PROPERTIES; ONE DIMENSIONAL CONVECTIVE-DIFFUSIVE PROBLEMS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFUSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; LIQUIDS; METAL CASTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLIDS;

EID: 33745097433     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530610669148     Document Type: Article

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