
enthalpy methods-continued 
conditions not amenable 
to 
252-3 
electrochemical machining 
85 
explicit finite-difference schemes  223-6 
moving-boundary position  233-5 
other methods compared with  233-5 
weak solutions of  217,220--3 
equilibrium  diagrams,  alloy  solidifica-
tion  14-15,245 
equipotential  boundary,  hodograph 
plane 
289 
equipotential  lines,  variable-inter-
change  342-3 
equipotential transformations 
197 
error-function  solutions  2,  102-3,  112-13, 
128 
Euler's constant 
159 
eutectic diagrams  14-15,245 
evaporation 
ablation problems  151-5 
porous 
flow 
problems  74-5 
evolution dam problems  33, 
9~3, 
99 
exact solutions, defined 
101 
examples,  free  and  moving  boundary 
problems  1 
explicit finite-difference methods 
boundary-fixing transformation 
188 
enthalpy  223-6 
fixed grid 
168 
isotherm migration  212-13,216 
explicit moving-boundary conditions 
190 
fictitious boundary conditions  122-3 
fictitious diffusivity approximations  147-50 
fictitious heat parameters 
148 
fictitious  temperatures,  fixed  finite-
difference grid 
167 
fictitious-point  approximations,  boundary-
fixing 
197 
filtration  problem,  similarity  solutions 
for 
110 
finite-difference methods 
dam problems 
43 
embedding techniques comparedwith 
128 
finite-element  methods  compared 
with  315-16, 
366 
fixed grid  163-8 
laser hole-cutting 
155 
modified grid  168-81 
rectangular dam, with capillary fringe 
78 
unequal space interval  164 
variable space-grid 
17~3 
variable time step  168-70 
finite-element methods 
adaptive mesh  173-81 
dam problems 
43 
finite-difference  methods  compared 
Subject index 
417 
with  315-16, 
366 
transient dam 
90,91,92 
finite elements, triangulation 
380 
five-sixths rule  180 
fixed finite-difference grids  163-8 
fixed-domain methods  35-8,217-82 
flame-front prob,ems  249-51 
diffusionlheat 
flow 
in 
16 
flow 
analogy,  Hele-Shaw  16,  81-2,  109, 
243 
fluid injection  82 
fluid  transfer,  semi-permeable  mem-
brane  8 
Forchheimer equations 
286 
Fourier-series solutions 
oxygen diffusion problem  187, 
263 
single-phase Stefan problem 
117 
Fox-Sankar algorithm  325-9 
Frechet derivative 
188 
free-boundary moving methods  319-29 
free-boundary problems 
defined 
1,30 
formulated  31-100 
numerical solution of  313-93 
freezing, axial line source 
111 
freezing fronts, coupling  274-5 
freezing index 
259,270,272,280 
Fremond freezing index  259,270,272,280 
Frenet formulae  330 
front-fixing methods  187-216 
front-tracking methods  163-86 
fully penetrating wells  67-9, 
318 
Dupuit formulae applied to 
285 
Galerkin formulations  173,  178,  180,  318, 
322 
Garabedian  modified  boundary  condi-
tions  329-32 
gas bubbles 
dissolution 
of 
170 
electrochemical machining 
89 
gas dynamics, examples  1 
Gauss-Seidel iteration  184, 230, 
356 
Gear 
algorithm 
191 
general solutions, Stefan problem  2 
generalized enthalpy functions  242, 
243 
glass manufacture 
108 
global basis functions 
318 
global  methods,  free-boundary  mov-
ing  325-9 
Goodman integral method  128-33, 134 
variable  time  step  finite-difference 
method compared with 
170 
graded  grids,  trial  free-boundary 
method 
315 
graphical solutions 
concentrated capacity  27-8