An object oriented implementation of a front tracking finite element method for directional solidification processes

DOI<1227::AID-NME471>3.0.CO;2-R 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990330)44:9<1227::AID-NME471>3.0.CO;2-RzbMath0943.76052MaRDI QIDQ4267005

Rajiv Sampath, Nicholas Zabaras

Publication date: 5 September 2000

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0207(19990330)44:9<1227::aid-nme471>3.0.co;2-r

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equations; spline interpolation; object-oriented programming; Stefan condition; melting; Boussinesq fluid; binary alloys; directional solidification; front tracking technique; freezing front; transfinite mapping technique; heat and mass transport equations; streamline-upwind/Petrov-Galerkin based FEM simulators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68N19: Other programming paradigms (object-oriented, sequential, concurrent, automatic, etc.)

80A22: Stefan problems, phase changes, etc.

76T99: Multiphase and multicomponent flows

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76-04: Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics

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Uses Software

• Diffpack

Cites Work

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