Symmetry breaking of melt flow typically encountered in a Bridgman configuration heated from below

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1249-1261

  Bennacer, R ^a   El Ganaoui, M ^b   Leonardi, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRANDTL NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY FLOW;

MELT FLOW; SPIRAL FLOW; SYMMETRY BREAKING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRANDTL NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 33746360886     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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