This unique volume offers a review of state-of-the-art modelling methods of phase change problems, numerical and experimental methods used in the field. It combines the experience of theoreticians with those using numerical tools for modelling problems of solidification.

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Preface.- Solidification Microstructure, Dendrites and Convection (G. Amberg).- Microscopic-Macroscopic Modelling of Transport Phenomena During Solidification in Heterogeneous Systems (P. Furmanski).- Natural Convection at a Solid-Liquid Phase Change Interface (D. Gobin).- Experimental Methods for Quantitative Analysis of Thermally Driven Flows (T. Kowalewski).- Modelling Methodologies for Convection-Diffusion Phase-Change Problems (F. Stella, M. Giangi).