Abstract
The homographic approximation, in which the Heaviside step function is replaced by a continuous smooth curve, is applied to the enthalpy method for heat transfer problems with isothermal phase change. Both the finite difference and finite element implementations, based on the basic enthalpy, the apparent heat capacity and the source term formulations, are considered. A 1‐D Stefan problem of melting a solid is used as a test problem. The accuracy of the numerical solutions is measured globally using L2 error norms and comparison is made between the solutions using homographic approximation and those using linear approximation. The advantages of using homographic approximation are examined.
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