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Natural convection and its fractal for liquid freezing in a vertical cavity filled with porous medium

✍ Scribed by Ji Ma; Xuan Wang

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 110 KB
Volume: 28
Category: Article
ISSN: 1099-2871
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1523-1496(1999)28:3<165::aid-htj1>3.0.co;2-o

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✦ Synopsis

The numerical simulation for a freezing liquid-saturated porous media in a vertical cylindrical cavity under the third kind of thermal boundary condition is reported in this paper. It shows that the effect of natural convection in the liquid phase decreases the freezing layer thickness and the freezing front has a wave shape instead of a stable plane, with one or more pair of eddy cells. This indicates a fractal existence.