In this paper the description of the simplest variant of conservative averaging method for partial differential (or integro-differential) equations in cylinder type domain is given. Different types of boundary conditions (both linear and non-linear) are considered. As application of the method the process of intensive steel quenching as the time inverse ill-posed problem for the hyperbolic heat...

A transient inverse heat conduction problem focused on gas quenching of steel plates and rings is posed and solved, both analytically and numerically. The quenching objective is to calculate the transient convective heat transfer coefficient which would produce an optimized phase transformation cooling curve. The governing nonlinear heat equation is nondimensionalised, and a small parameter, th...

An adjoint based functional optimization technique in conjunction with the spectral stochastic finite element method is proposed for the solution of an inverse heat conduction problem in the presence of uncertainties in material data, process conditions and measurement noise. The ill-posed stochastic inverse problem is restated as a conditionally well-posed L2 optimization problem. The gradient...

In this paper we study the existence and geometric properties of an optimal configuration to a nonlinear optimization problem in heat conduction. The quantity to be minimized is R ∂D Γ(x, uμ)dσ, where D is a fixed domain. A nonconstant temperature distribution is prescribed on ∂D and a volume constraint on the set where the temperature is positive is imposed. Among other regularity properties o...

In an inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP), the boundary conditions, initial conditions, or thermo-physical properties of material are not fully specified, and they are determined from measured internal temperature profiles. The challenge is that the effect of changes in boundary conditions are normally damped or lagged, i.e. the varying magnitude of the interior temperature profile lags behi...