A high order control volume finite element procedure for transient heat conduction analysis of functionally graded materials

Charoensuk, J.; Vessakosol, P.

doi:10.1007/s00231-010-0649-8

A high order control volume finite element procedure for transient heat conduction analysis of functionally graded materials

Author(s)

Charoensuk, J.

Vessakosol, P.

Date Issued

December 1, 2010

Type

Article

DOI

10.1007/s00231-010-0649-8

Abstract

A robust unstructured control-volume finite element method is presented for the solution of two-dimensional transient heat conduction in functionally graded materials (FGMs) with isotropic properties. The material properties at a point in the domain vary exponentially to spatial coordinates. A triangular mesh is chosen for spatial discretization and a fully implicit scheme is adapted for time discretization. Several problems are investigated and the results are successfully validated by using analytical and other numerical solutions available in the literature. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

Citation

Heat and Mass Transfer Waerme Und Stoffuebertragung, 46(11-12), 1261-1276, 2010