A fast method for numerical simulation of casting solidification

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1723-1740

  Tavakoli, Rohallah ^a   Davami, Parviz ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Casting simulation; Phase change; Solidification; Stable explicit; Stefan problem; Temperature recovery

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; SOLIDIFICATION; STABILITY CRITERIA; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CASTING SIMULATION; PHASE CHANGE; STABLE EXPLICIT; STEFAN PROBLEM; TEMPERATURE RECOVERY;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 61749103705     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1062     Document Type: Article

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