Numerical modeling of alternate melting and solidification

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 393-418

  Wang, Shimin ^a   Faghri, Amir ^a   Bergman, Theodore L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE-VOLUME; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; LIQUID FRACTION; MELTING AND SOLIDIFICATION; MODELING RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; OPERATIONAL MODES; PHASE CHANGE; SODIUM NITRATES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

GALLIUM; HEAT STORAGE; LIQUIDS; MELTING; SODIUM; SOLIDIFICATION; TIN;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 78650451896     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790.2010.529024     Document Type: Article

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