A generalized boundary-element method for steady-state heat conduction in heterogeneous anisotropic media

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-61

  Divo, Eduardo ^a   Kassab, Alain ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS (BIE); HETEROGENEOUS ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

HEAT CONDUCTION;

EID: 0031177422     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407799708914998     Document Type: Article

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