A Localized Method of Fundamental Solution for Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Heat Conduction

Abstract

In this study, an efficient localized method of fundamental solution (LMFS) is applied to nonlinear heat conduction with mixed boundary conditions. Since the thermal conductivity is temperature-dependent, the Kirchhoff transformation is used to transform the nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) into Laplace equations with nonlinear boundary conditions. Then the LMFS is applied to the governing equation, and the nonlinear equations are treated by the fictitious time integration method (FTIM). Both 2D and 3D numerical examples are proposed to verify the effectiveness of the LMFS.

Keywords

• nonlinear heat conduction
• Kirchhoff transformation
• localized method of fundamental solutions
• fictitious time integration method