Melting in cylindrical enclosures: Numerical modeling and heat transfer correlations

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 837-859

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL ENCLOSURE; FINITE VOLUME MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATION; ISOTHERMAL CYLINDERS; MODELING RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRANSIENT HEAT TRANSFER;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCLOSURES; HEAT STORAGE;

MELTING;

EID: 84862190797     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2012.672895     Document Type: Article

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