Experimental and numerical analysis of melting of PCM inside a spherical capsule

Collection of Technical Papers - 9th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 2159-2170

  Felix Regin, A ^a   Solanki, S C ^a   Saini, J S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MELTING;

HEAT TRANSFER FLUID TEMPERATURE; MOLTEN FRACTION; SPHERICAL CAPSULES; STEFAN NUMBERS;

PARAFFIN WAXES;

EID: 33845546335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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