An accurate numerical solution for the transient heating of an evaporating spherical droplet

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 217, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9219-9233

  Mitchell, S L ^a   Vynnycky, M ^a   Gusev, I G ^b   Sazhin, S S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diesel fuel; Droplets; Evaporation; Heating; Keller box scheme; Stefan problem

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; BOUNDARY IMMOBILIZATION METHODS; DROPLETS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME; HEAT CONDUCTION EQUATIONS; KELLER BOX; KELLER BOX SCHEME; MOVING BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PIECE-WISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; SPHERICAL DROPLETS; STEFAN PROBLEM; TIME AND SPACE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRANSIENT HEATING; VARIABLE TRANSFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; DIESEL FUELS; DROPS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

HEATING;

EID: 79957478604     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2011.03.161     Document Type: Article

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