Advances in Cold-Region Thermal Engineering and Sciences: Technological, Environmental, and Climatological Impact Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium Held in Darmstadt, Germany, 22–25 August 1999

Some observations on the historical development of conduction heat transfer....Pages 1-22
Numerical and experimental investigation on frosting of energy-recovery ventilator....Pages 25-32
Melting of unfixed material inside an elliptical capsule....Pages 33-44
Experimental study on the critical heat flux of ice accretion along a fine wire immersed in a cold air flow with water spray....Pages 45-54
The characteristics of frost growth on parallel plates....Pages 55-64
Effect of ultrasonic waves on freezing of supercooled water....Pages 65-72
Numerical modeling of dendritic ice crystals....Pages 73-82
Measurement of temperature and velocity fields of freezing water using liquid crystal tracers....Pages 83-90
Heat transfer enhancement of a direct contact melting process by oscillating motion....Pages 91-102
Permeability of an aqueous solution in a state of partial solidification....Pages 103-112
Lateral freezing of a porous medium saturated with an aqueous salt solution....Pages 113-130
Spontaneous melting of ice in a CaCl 2 solution....Pages 131-146
An analytic solution prescribing the time-dependent formation of a solid crust inside a convectively cooled plane channel....Pages 147-158
Melting heat-transfer characteristics of an inclined ice plate immersed in a hydrophobic liquid....Pages 159-168
Plane flow of an ice sheet exhibiting strain-induced anisotropy....Pages 171-182
A meso-macro model for the description of induced anisotropy of natural ice, including grain interaction....Pages 183-196
Classical mixture models for polythermal ice....Pages 197-214
Modelling the ice single-crystal viscoplastic behaviour....Pages 215-224
Remarks on self-consistent modelling of polycrystalline ice....Pages 225-236
Anisotropic isothermal ice-cap flow with the shallow ice approximation....Pages 237-248
Orthotropic viscous model for ice....Pages 249-258
Tertiary flow relations for compression and shear components in combined stress tests on ice....Pages 259-270
An iterative solution procedure for shallow stokes flows. The shallow ice approximation revisited....Pages 273-284
Nested high-resolution modelling of the greenland summit region....Pages 285-306
Numerical age computation of the antarctic ice sheet for dating deep ice cores....Pages 307-318
Three-dimensional isothermal boundary layer solutions of slow creeping ice flows based on the shallow ice approximation....Pages 319-332
A comparison study between two visco-plastic sea-ice models....Pages 333-352
Influence of ice accumulation distribution on ice sheet stability....Pages 353-364
A computational procedure for instationary temperature-dependent snow creep....Pages 367-386
Transformation of the snow crystal to a particle of ice....Pages 387-394
Temperature and temperature gradient dependence of snow recrystallization in depth hoar snow....Pages 395-402
On creep flow of snow and firn....Pages 403-408
Relation of temperature gradient to heat transfer in snow....Pages 409-414
Methods of similitude in granular avalanche flows....Pages 415-428
Experimental study of gas hydrate formation in porous media....Pages 431-440
Electroacoustic technique to study changes in the liquid phase state of frozen soils....Pages 441-454
Permeability effects on winter-time natural convection in gravel embankments....Pages 455-464
Barothermic effect and temperature regime of frozen soil....Pages 465-474
Detecting alpine permafrost using electro-magnetic methods....Pages 475-482
Climatic warming and permafrost....Pages 483-502
The monitoring and prediction of permafrost temperature, distribution and geocryological processes within russia under global climate changes....Pages 503-510
Thermally induced temporal strain variations in rock walls observed at subzero temperatures....Pages 511-518
Soil microstructure and the thermodynamic behaviour of permafrost affected soils....Pages 519-532
Heat transfer in heat storage arrangements under melting....Pages 535-544
Microscale analysis of ice crystals made from aqueous solutions by scanning tunneling microscope....Pages 545-554
Development study of a novel tower-style tank for simultaneous storing warm water and ice....Pages 555-562
Latent heat storage in a fixed-bed packed with cross-linked polymer particles....Pages 563-574
Development of an efficient static-type ice thermal energy storage vessel using a low concentration aqueous solution....Pages 575-584
Heat storage for a bus petrol internal-combustion engine....Pages 585-594
Heat pumps and heat pipes for applications in cold regions....Pages 595-608