Numerical simulation of conduction-advection problems with phase change

This paper introduces a finite element temperature-based model to represent conduction-advection dominated heat transfer when the material is undergoi ng phase-change. A fixed domain method is applied, so that the energy balan ce through the interface does not need to be explicitly accounted for in th e weak formulation of the problem, obtained either by the standard Galerkin or Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) procedures. The model is appli ed to analyze a continuous casting process.