Determination of thermophysical characteristics in a nonlinear inverse heat transfer problem

Sultan Alpar and Bolatbek Rysbaiuly

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023, vol. 440, issue C

Abstract: This paper presents a detailed and developed method for finding soil nonlinear thermophysical characteristics. Two-layer container complexes are constructed. The side faces of which are thermally insulated, so that one can use the one dimensional heat equation. In order not to solve the boundary value problem with a contact discontinuity and not to lose the accuracy of the solution method, a temperature sensor was placed at the junction of the two media, and a mixed boundary value problem is solved in each region of the container. In order to provide the initial data for the inverse coefficient problem, two temperature sensors are used: one sensor was placed on the open border of the container and recorded the temperature of the soil at this border, and the second sensor was placed at a short distance from the border, which recorded the air temperature. The measurements were carried out in the time interval (0,4tmax). At first, the initial-boundary value problem of nonlinear thermal conductivity equation with temperature dependent coefficients of thermal conductivity, heat capacity, heat transfer and material density is investigated numerically. The nonlinear initial-boundary value problem is solved by the finite difference method. Two types of difference schemes are constructed: linearized and nonlinear. The linearized difference scheme is implemented numerically by the scalar Thomas’ method, and the nonlinear difference problem is solved by the Newton’s method. Assuming the constancy of all thermophysical parameters, except for the thermal conductivity of the material, on the segment (0,tmax), the quadratic convergence of Newton’s method is proved and the thermal conductivity is calculated, while the solution of the linearized difference problem was taken as the initial approximation for the Newton’s method. By freezing all other thermophysical parameters, and using the measured temperatures in the segment (tmax,2tmax), the coefficient of specific heat of the material is found. Proceeding in a similar way, using the initial data on the segment (2tmax,3tmax), the density of the soil is determined. Also, based on the measured initial data on the segment (3tmax,4tmax), the heat transfer coefficient is determined.

Keywords: Thermal conductivity; Heat capacity; Heat transfer; Density; Nonlinearity; Difference problem; Convergence; Inverse problem; Differentiation by parameter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2022.127656

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