The convective-diffusion equation is the governing equation of many important transport phenomena in building physics. The paper deals in its first part with the general formulation of the convective-diffusion equation and with the numerical solution of this equation by means of the finite element method. The second part of the paper contains the analysis of one typical combined transport probl...

Present study explores the effect of Hall current, non-linear radiation, irregular heat source/sink on magnetohydrodynamic flow of Casson nanofluid past a nonlinear stretching sheet. Viscous and Joule dissipation are incorporated in the energy equation. An accurate numerical solution of highly nonlinear partial differential equations, describing the flow, heat and mass transfer...

The scale effect of heat conduction of air in nano spacing (NS) is very important for nanodevices to improve their life and efficiency. By constructing a special technique, the changes of heat conduction of air were studied by means of measuring the heat conduction with heat conduction instrument in NS between the hot plate and the cooling plate. Carbon nanotubes were used to produce the nano s...

A dual-reciprocity boundary element method is presented for the numerical solution of initial-boundary value problems governed by a nonlinear partial differential equation for heat conduction in nonhomogeneous anisotropic materials. To assess the validity and accuracy of the method, some specific problems are solved. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 000: 000–...

In this paper, we consider the non-classical heat equation with singular memory term. This has many applications in various fields, for example liquids mechanics, solid and conduction theory first, prove that solution exists locally time. Then investigate converegence of mild equation, classical equation.

We consider an inverse heat conduction problem, the Sideways Heat Equation, which is a model of a problem, where one wants to determine the temperature on both sides of a thick wall, but where one side is inaccessible to measurements. Mathematically it is formulated as a Cauchy problem for the heat equation in a quarter plane, with data given along the line x = 1, where the solution is wanted f...

Heat conduction modelling ........................................................................................................................... 1 Case studies ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Analytical solutions.........................................................................

Heat conduction modelling ........................................................................................................................... 1 Case studies ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Analytical solutions.........................................................................

We consider a nonlinear backward heat conduction problem in a strip. The problem is ill-posed in the sense that the solution (if it exists) does not depend continuously on the data. We shall use a modified integral equation method to regularize the nonlinear problem. The error estimates of Hölder type of the regularized solutions are obtained. AMS subject classifications: 35K05, 35K99, 47J06, 4...