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Recent advances towards an effective virtual‐pulse (VIP) explicit time integral methodology for general multidimensional thermal analysis
Author(s) -
Tamma Kumar K.,
Mei Y.,
Chen X.,
Sha D.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.1650200608
Subject(s) - computer science , computation , computational science , basis (linear algebra) , workstation , transient (computer programming) , general purpose , thermal , industrial engineering , algorithm , mathematics , engineering , geometry , meteorology , operating system , computer architecture , physics
Recent advances and progress towards the development of an effective Virtual‐Pulse (VIP) explicit time integral methodology of computation for applicability to general multidimensional non‐linear transient thermal analysis of structures and materials is overviewed. The computational methodology is derived from new and different perspectives and the theoretical basis as well as the practical applicability to multidimensional thermal analysis situations are detailed. The VIP methodology inherits improved accuracy and superior stability characteristics in comparison to the traditional approaches customarily employed by thermal analysts. With the notion of providing techniques for high‐speed computing environments and parallel architectures, the present approach is developed for such computations and also ideally suited for personal workstation computing environments. Results of the numerical test models for multidimensional problems validate the overall concepts for general applicability to thermal analysis situations.