TY - JOUR
TI - An approximate method for solving a melting problem with periodic boundary conditions
AU - Qu Liang-Hui
AU - Xing Lin
AU - Yu Zhi-Yun
AU - Ling Feng
AU - Xu Jian-Guo
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 5
SP - 1679
EP - 1684
PT - Article
AB - An effective thermal diffusivity method is used to solve one-dimensional  melting problem with periodic boundary conditions in a semi-infinite domain.  An approximate analytic solution showing the functional relation between the  location of the moving boundary and time is obtained by using Laplace  transform. The evolution of the moving boundary and the temperature field in  the phase change domain are simulated numerically, and the numerical results  are compared with previous results in open literature.