International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 13 Issue 5

A comparison of different regularization methods for a Cauchy problem in anisotropic heat conduction

N.S. Mera, L. Elliott, D.B. Ingham, D. Lesnic

In this paper, various regularization methods are numerically implemented using the boundary element method (BEM) in order to solve the Cauchy steady‐state heat conduction problem…

Inverse analysis of continuous casting processes

Iwona Nowak, Andrzej J. Nowak, Luiz C. Wrobel

This paper discusses an algorithm for phase change front identification in continuous casting. The problem is formulated as an inverse geometry problem, and the solution procedure…

Optimization of a window frame by BEM and genetic algorithm

Malgorzata Król, Ryszard A. Bialecki

Genetic algorithms and boundary elements have been used to find an optimal design of a plastic window frame with air chambers and steel stiffeners. The objective function has been…

BEM/FVM conjugate heat transfer analysis of a three‐dimensional film cooled turbine blade

A. Kassab, E. Divo, J. Heidmann, E. Steinthorsson, F. Rodriguez

We report on the progress in the development and application of a coupled boundary element/finite volume method temperature‐forward/flux‐back algorithm developed to solve…

RBF interpolation of boundary values in the BEM for heat transfer problems

Nam Mai‐Duy, Thanh Tran‐Cong

This paper is concerned with the application of radial basis function networks (RBFNs) as interpolation functions for all boundary values in the boundary element method (BEM) for…

Dual reciprocity boundary element analysis of transient advection‐diffusion

Krishna M. Singh, Masataka Tanaka

This paper presents an application of the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM) to transient advection‐diffusion problems. Radial basis functions and augmented thin…