A meshless BEM for isotropic heat conduction problems with heat generation and spatially varying conductivity

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1411-1431

  Gao, Xiao Wei ^a,b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZONA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Heat conduction; Heat generation rate; Meshless method; Non homogeneous media

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; POLYNOMIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

HEAT GENERATION RATE; MESHLESS METHOD; NON-HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; RADIAL INTEGRATION METHOD;

HEAT CONDUCTION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HEAT CONDUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; POLYNOMIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

EID: 33744532131     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1602     Document Type: Article

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