CALCULATION OF STRESSES AND STRAINS
IN A SPHERICAL VOLUME FILLED WITH WATER
CAUSED BY ITS FREEZING

V. A. Sychevskii

UDC 519.6:539:536

Formulas for calculating stresses and strains in a spherical 
water-ice system and a numerical method for solving the Stefan 
problem are presented. The processes of freezing and development of 
stresses and strains in such a system have been calculated.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, 
No. 4, pp. 173-180, July-August, 2007. Original article submitted 
December 29, 2005; revision submitted October 2, 2006.