Abstract – A one-dimensional inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP) of estimating an unknown heat flux, given experimental temperature measurements at a point in the domain, is solved using evolutionary algorithms (EA). The EA based methods used to solve the one-dimensional IHCP in the literature involve minimization of the Tikhonov functional. In this paper, a modified approach is utilized whe...

numerical solutions obtained by the meshless local petrov–galerkin (mlpg) method are presented for two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems. the mlpg method is a truly meshless approach, and neither the nodal connectivity nor the background mesh is required for solving the initial-boundary-value problem. the penalty method is adopted to efficiently enforce the essential boundary co...

In this paper, the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) is extended to solve some special cases of the problem of transient heat conduction in functionally graded materials. First, the problem is transformed to a heat equation with constant coefficients using a suitable new transformation and then the MFS together with the Tikhonov regularization method is used to solve the resulting equation.

In this paper an inverse problem for the space fractional heat conduction equation is investigated. Firstly, we describe the approximate solution of the direct problem. Secondly, for the inverse problem part, we define the functional illustrating the error of approximate solution. To recover the thermal conductivity coefficient we need to minimize this functional. In order to minimize this func...

We address a general inverse mimicking problem in heat conduction. The objects to cloak and mimic are chosen beforehand; these objects identify a specific set of space transformations. The shapes that can be mimicked are derived from the conductivity matrices. Numerical calculation confirms all of the analytical predictions. The technique provides key advantages for applications and can be exte...

In this study a multi block procedure is implemented to solve accurately two-dimensional transient Inverse Heat Conduction Problems (IHCPs). The multi block method is implemented for geometric decomposition of physical domain into regions with blocked-interface structured grids. The Finite Element Method (FEM) with Galerkin weighting function is employed for direct solution of transient heat co...

In many applications, such as the heat conduction and hydrology, there is a need to recover the (possibly discontinuous) diffusion coefficient a from boundary measurements of solutions of a parabolic equation. The complete inverse problem is ill posed and nonlinear, so numerical solution is quite difficult, and we linearize the problem around constant a. We study and solve numerically the linea...