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International Journal of Differential Equations
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 187902, 22 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/187902
Research Article
Application of Heat Balance Integral Methods to One-Dimensional Phase Change Problems
1MACSI, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
2Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici C, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Received 15 December 2011; Accepted 12 February 2012
Academic Editor: Ebrahim Momoniat
Copyright © 2012 S. L. Mitchell and T. G. Myers. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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