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A Generalized Boundary Integral Equation For Axisymmetric Heat Conduction In Non- Homogeneous Isotropic Media

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

19

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

862 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/BE970441

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Eduardo Divo and Alain J. Kassab

Abstract

In this paper, we extend our previous work on,the generalized boundary integral equation (BEB) formulation for heat conduction in media with spatially varying thermal conductivity to formulate a generalized boundary integral equation for axisymmetric heat conduction in such media. The kernels of the integral equation do not contain elliptic integrals encountered in traditional BEM formulation in which Dirac Delta forcing functions are used to drive the axisymmetric adjoint equation. The resulting integral equation is implemented in a BEM code. Numerical examples are presented to validate the formulation. Quadratic elements are used and hollow

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