Study of a double-layered sphere melting subjected to conditions of not uniform heat flux

Abstract

Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, South Africa, 1-4 July, 2007.

This paper deals with solid/liquid transition in a double-layered micrometric composite spherical particle metal/ceramic injected into a high temperature plasma jet of argon-hydrogen. The analysis focuses on tracking the particle following its trajectory in order to consider its thermal heat history. The heat transfer equation is formulated by using the enthalpy method and its discretization is carried out by a technique of second order finite volumes in time and space. The obtained results show the significant effect of the geometrical parameters, the phase change and the coupled heat transfer.