The use of lumped capacitance in the finite-element solution of heat conduction problems with phase change

DOI10.1016/0017-9310(86)90235-8zbMath0605.76116MaRDI QIDQ1083972

Q. T. Pham

Publication date: 1986

Published in: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0017-9310(86)90235-8

zbMATH Keywords

Stefan problems; enthalpy method; diagonal capacitance matrix; finite-element solution; freezing problems; heat conduction problems with phase change; lumped-capacitance principle; phase-change point; singular behaviour of the specific heat; thermal capacitance; three-level distributed capacitance methods; three-level enthalpy method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74A15: Thermodynamics in solid mechanics

76T99: Multiphase and multicomponent flows

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

74S99: Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics

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