Title: On some basic considerations of solid/liquid transition models under a microgravity environment

Authors: R. Prud'homme, M. El Ganaoui

Addresses: LMM, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France. ' SPCTS, Universite de Limoges UMR 66 38 CNRS, 123 Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges, France

Abstract: Some problems of solid/liquid phase change are presented. Attention is focused on interface modelling for numerical analysis, and one-directional growing. Microgravity relevance of some situations is emphasised. The summary focuses on some activities of the French Research Group: ||Transport Phenomena and Phase Transitions in Microgravity|| (GDR-P2TPM) of Centre National d|Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

Keywords: microgravity; solid-liquid transition; phase change.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMPT.2005.005765

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology, 2005 Vol.22 No.1/2/3, pp.213 - 225

Published online: 30 Nov 2004 *

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