Flow and heat transfer in convection-dominated melting in a rectangular cavity heated from below

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作者
Gong, ZX [1 ]
Mujumdar, AS [1 ]
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[1] McGill Univ, Dept Chem Engn, Montreal, PQ H3A 2A7, Canada
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10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00374-8
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O414.1 [热力学];
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Melting of a pure phase change material (PCM) in a rectangular container heated from below is simulated using the Streamline Upwind/Petrov Galerkin finite element method in combination with a fixed grid primitive variable method. boussinesq assumption is invoked and two-dimensionality is assumed. flow patterns for a wide range of Rayleigh numbers are presented. Instability of free convection flow during the melting process is discovered and discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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