Melting and freezing in a finite slab due to a linearly decreasing free-stream temperature of a convective boundary condition

Thermal Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-153

  Roday, Anand P ^a   Kazmierczak, Michael J ^a  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Finite slab; Freezing; Heat balance integral; Melting; Time dependent

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; LIQUIDS; PHASE INTERFACES; SPECIFIC HEAT;

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE SLAB; FREEZING; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT BALANCE INTEGRAL; HEAT BALANCE INTEGRAL METHOD; MELTING; PHASE CHANGE PROCESS; TIME DEPENDENT;

FREEZING;

EID: 70350142205     PISSN: 03549836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/TSCI0902141R     Document Type: Article

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