Numerical analysis for freezing/melting around vertically arranged four cylinders

• DOI: 10.1007/s00231-009-0492-y
• Publication Date: 2009-05-22T09:25:44Z
• Authors: M. Sugawara; H. Beer
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

Freezing/melting of water/ice around vertically arranged four horizontal cylinders placed in a rectangular cavity is investigated numerically by using a commercial software package. Freezing/melting is affected by the bottom cylinder distance h from the cavity bottom and by a complicated natural convection as well as the interaction with the flow around each cylinder.