The temperature stays the same when a solid is melting or a liquid is boiling during a change of state, even though heat energy is being absorbed. The specific latent heat of a substance is a ...

This study was made available online in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. "While fluid motion has a characteristic time scale for recovery and relaxation, viscoelastic fluids ...

The conservation equations are then applied to solutions of heat transfer problems in various flow configurations of interest to industry. In particular, the classical problem of laminar boundary ...