The visual simulation of natural phenomena has been widely studied. Although several methods have been proposed to simulate melting, the flows of meltwater drops on the surfaces of objects are not taken into account. In this paper, we propose a particle-based method for the simulation of the melting and freezing of ice objects and the interactions between ice and fluids. To simulate the flow of...

Abstract—This study presents a simple inverse heat transfer procedure for predicting the wall erosion and the time-varying thickness of the protective bank that covers the inside surface of the refractory brick wall of a melting furnace. The direct problem is solved by using the Finite-Volume model. The melting/solidification process is modeled using the enthalpy method. The inverse procedure r...

In the present study, a finite volume method is employed to model the advection-diffusion phenomenon during a pure substance melting process. The exercise is limited to a benchmark problem consisting of the 2D melting from a vertical wall of a PCM driven by natural convection in the melt. Numerical results, mainly the temporal evolution of average Nusselt number at the hot wall and the average ...

The dissipated electric power in oxide powder compacts, subjected to flash sintering, is several hundreds of W·cm-3. This power is analyzed considering local softening/melting and transient plasma/liquid formation at the particle contacts due to thermal runaway. The sudden increase in compact electric conductivity and dissipated power referred to current percolation through the softening/liquid...

An analysis has been carried out for the characteristics of melting heat transfer in the boundary layer flow of third grade fluid in a region of stagnation point past a stretching sheet. The relevant partial differential equations are reduced into ordinary differential system by suitable transformations. The series solutions are developed by homotopy analysis method. It is revealed that an incr...

The efficiency of a turbine increases in general with an increase of the temperature of the working gas. In modern turbines this gas temperature may well exceed the melting temperature of the metal walls (Harasgama, 1995). Locally high heat transfer can lead to an excessive temperature and high thermal stresses in the walls, causing an early fatigue of the high pressure turbine components. Thus...

the objective of the present study is the synthesis of mwcnt-tio2 hybrid nanostructures by solvothermal synthesis method with ticl4 as precursor. the heat transfer enhancement due to the use of mwcnt-tio2 nanofluid was investigated. as-prepared hybrid materials were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem). the results showed that mwcnts were uniformly dec...

A full scale snow melting system with heat pipe technology is built in this work, which avoids the negative effects on concrete structure and environment caused by traditional deicing chemicals. The snow melting, ice-freezing performance and temperature distribution characteristics of heat pipe concrete runway were discussed by the outdoor experiments. The results show that the temperature of t...