Advances in Cold-Region Thermal Engineering and Sciences

From the reviews "The book is highly recommended for all those involved in cold region studies." (ASLIB Book Guide, 2000)

• Some observations on the historical development of conduction heat transfer.- Numerical and experimental investigation on frosting of energy-recovery ventilator.- Melting of unfixed material inside an elliptical capsule.- Experimental study on the critical heat flux of ice accretion along a fine wire immersed in a cold air flow with water spray.- The characteristics of frost growth on parallel plates.- Effect of ultrasonic waves on freezing of supercooled water.- Numerical modeling of dendritic ice crystals.- Measurement of temperature and velocity fields of freezing water using liquid crystal tracers.- Heat transfer enhancement of a direct contact melting process by oscillating motion.- Permeability of an aqueous solution in a state of partial solidification.- Lateral freezing of a porous medium saturated with an aqueous salt solution.- Spontaneous melting of ice in a CaCl2 solution.- An analytic solution prescribing the time-dependent formation of a solid crust inside a convectively cooled plane channel.- Melting heat-transfer characteristics of an inclined ice plate immersed in a hydrophobic liquid.- Plane flow of an ice sheet exhibiting strain-induced anisotropy.- A meso-macro model for the description of induced anisotropy of natural ice, including grain interaction.- Classical mixture models for polythermal ice.- Modelling the ice single-crystal viscoplastic behaviour.- Remarks on self-consistent modelling of polycrystalline ice.- Anisotropic isothermal ice-cap flow with the shallow ice approximation.- Orthotropic viscous model for ice.- Tertiary flow relations for compression and shear components in combined stress tests on ice.- An iterative solution procedure for shallow stokes flows. The shallow ice approximation revisited.- Nested high-resolution modelling ofthe greenland summit region.- Numerical age computation of the antarctic ice sheet for dating deep ice cores.- Three-dimensional isothermal boundary layer solutions of slow creeping ice flows based on the shallow ice approximation.- A comparison study between two visco-plastic sea-ice models.- Influence of ice accumulation distribution on ice sheet stability.- A computational procedure for instationary temperature-dependent snow creep.- Transformation of the snow crystal to a particle of ice.- Temperature and temperature gradient dependence of snow recrystallization in depth hoar snow.- On creep flow of snow and firn.- Relation of temperature gradient to heat transfer in snow.- Methods of similitude in granular avalanche flows.- Experimental study of gas hydrate formation in porous media.- Electroacoustic technique to study changes in the liquid phase state of frozen soils.- Permeability effects on winter-time natural convection in gravel embankments.- Barothermic effect and temperature regime of frozen soil.- Detecting alpine permafrost using electro-magnetic methods.- Climatic warming and permafrost.- The monitoring and prediction of permafrost temperature, distribution and geocryological processes within russia under global climate changes.- Thermally induced temporal strain variations in rock walls observed at subzero temperatures.- Soil microstructure and the thermodynamic behaviour of permafrost affected soils.- Heat transfer in heat storage arrangements under melting.- Microscale analysis of ice crystals made from aqueous solutions by scanning tunneling microscope.- Development study of a novel tower-style tank for simultaneous storing warm water and ice.- Latent heat storage in a fixed-bed packed with cross-linked polymer particles.- Development of an efficientstatic-type ice thermal energy storage vessel using a low concentration aqueous solution.- Heat storage for a bus petrol internal-combustion engine.- Heat pumps and heat pipes for applications in cold regions.