ISSN Online: 2377-424X
International Heat Transfer Conference 12
Analysis of melting in an enclosure under boundary condition of the third kind
Résumé
Natural convection controlled melting in a rectangular enclosure with convective heating on one side was
investigated analytically. The liquid phase can be divided into three regions: (1) cold boundary layer near solidliquid
interface, (2) warm boundary layer near the heated vertical wall, and (3) the core region between these two boundary layers. The governing equations in the three regions are nondimensionalized into a set of ordinary differential equations and solved numerically. The effect of Biot number on the wall and core temperatures, the velocity of the solid-liquid interface, and heat transfer characteristics are investigated.