Modeling snow melting on heated pavement surfaces. Part I: Model development

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 1115-1124

  Liu, Xiaobing ^a   Rees, Simon J ^b   Spitler, Jeffrey D ^c  

^a Climatemaster Inc   (United States)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat and mass transfer; Heated pavement; Snow melting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MELTING; SAFETY FACTOR; SNOW; SURFACE TREATMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

FULL-SCALE BRIDGE; HEATED PAVEMENT; SNOW MELTING;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 33845584693     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2006.06.017     Document Type: Article

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