Micro/nanoparticle melting with spherical symmetry and surface tension

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 439-457

  McCue, Scott W ^a   Wu, Bisheng ^b   Hill, James M ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite time blow up; Size dependent melting; Superheating; Surface tension; Two phase Stefan problem

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ASYMPTOTICS; BLOW-UP; FINITE-TIME BLOW-UP; FRONT-FIXING; GIBBS-THOMSON; ILL POSED PROBLEM; MELTING TEMPERATURES; NANOSCALED PARTICLES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARTICLE RADII; SIZE-DEPENDENT MELTING; SOLID-PHASE; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; SPHERICAL SYMMETRY; STEFAN NUMBERS; SUPERHEATED SOLIDS; SUPERHEATING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TWO-PHASE STEFAN PROBLEM;

CAPILLARITY; MELTING POINT; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES; WETTING;

MELTING;

EID: 66749129560     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: 14643634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxn038     Document Type: Article

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