Proceedings Of The Asme Heat Transfer Division 1998 Heat Transfer In Materials Processing

Annotation Proceedings from a November 2002 conference describe the latest research on transport phenomena in manufacturing and materials processing and in electronics and photonics, microstructural development in solidification processing, thermal issues in nanomaterials and nanofabrication, and cryogenic heat transfer in energy engineering. Some specific topics include numerical analysis of heat conduction in cooling of aluminum extrusion, a numerical study of dynamic meniscus, and convection effects in three-dimensional dendritic growth. There is no subject index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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