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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A theoretical analysis of combined melting and vaporization using the boundary element method

Fulakis, Chris 05 September 2009 (has links)
Melting and vaporization of solids occur very often in nature and in man-made processes. Many analytical and numerical solutions exist for solving the temperature field in the liquid and solid regions, but inaccuracies persist in tracking the phase change interfaces and the numerical solution of the temperature field is usually cumbersome. The Boundary Element Method is proposed as an accurate, efficient way to solve for the temperature field and the interface positions in a phase change problem involving combined melting and vaporization. When comparing to specific one-dimensional test cases, accurate results arc obtained when using a sufficiently small time step. A comparison is made to existing data from a laser drilling experiment. The anticipated physical effects which occur on semi-infinite and finite domains arc confirmed. Consequently, this method can be used to model natural and industrial phenomena involving phase change. / Master of Science

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