Mathematical modelling of unsteady contact melting

Doctoral Thesis

2008

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Muchatibaya, Gift
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Myers, Timothy G
Mitchell, S L
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
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Faculty of Science
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Abstract
The work in this thesis deals with the heat transfer and fluid flow problem encountered in the analysis of an unsteady contact melting process. Chapters 2 and 3 deal with only the heat transfer problem without fluid flow. In Chapter 2 the pre-melting problem is treated. The focus is to obtain the best approximate analytical solution to be used in the melting phase where there are no known exact solutions. The approximate solutions are constructed using the heat balance integral method.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-122).

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Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

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Muchatibaya, G. 2008. Mathematical modelling of unsteady contact melting. University of Cape Town.

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