The growth and decay of ice /
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| Author / Creator: | Lock, G. S. H. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
| Description: | xvii, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in polar research |
| Subject: | Ice Freezing points Freezing points. Ice. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1091473 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Nomenclature
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Ice in the heavens
- 2. Ice ages
- 3. The incidence of ice
- 4. The response to ice
- 7. The Gibbs function and chemical potential diffusion in ice, water and water vapour
- Part II. Thermodynamics of Ice
- 5. Classical laws and principles
- 6. The Gibbs function and phase change
- 8. Metastability and the freezing point
- 9. Morphology and microenergetics
- 10. Thermal properties
- 11. Nucleation interfacial conditions and growth
- Part III. The Stefan Problem
- 12. The simplified model and its variations
- 13. The Neumann solution
- 14. Physico-mathematical analysis
- 15. Analytic techniques
- 16. Numerical techniques
- Part IV. Ice and Water
- 17. Freezing of solutions and suspensions
- 18. Formation of an ice cover
- 19. Growth of an ice cover
- 20. The effect of natural convection on planar growth
- 21. The effect of forced convection on planar growth
- 24. Deposition of water vapour
- 22. Freezing inside cavities and conduits
- 23. Freezing on submerged bodies
- Part V. Ice and Air
- 25. Accretion
- 26. Atmospheric ice
- 27. Icing of airborne structures
- 28. Icing of waterborne and offshore structures
- 29. Icing of land-based structures and equipment
- Part VI. Ice and earth
- 30. Surface energy exchange
- 31. Freezing on the Earth
- 32. The pore system: its architecture, hydrodynamics and thermodynamics
- 33. Freezing in the Earth
- Part VII. Ice and Life
- 34. Water in the biosphere
- 35. Freezing of biofluids
- 36. The cell freezing of unicellular organisms
- 37. Freezing in plants
- 38. Freezing in animals
- 39. Freezing of foods
- Part VIII. Decay of Ice
- 40. Reversibility and symmetry
- 41. Melting of single ice crystals
- 42. Melting of polycrystalline ice
- 43. Decay of an ice cover
- 44. Ablation of atmospheric and structural icing
- 45. Thawing of soil
- 46. Thawing of organisms
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index
