Finding analytical solutions to the problems of thermal conductivity with variable physical properties of the medium by classical analytical methods is very complicated mathematically. The known expressions repre-senting complex infinite series including two types of Bessel functions and gamma-functions are, in fact, numerical as they require a numerical solution to complex transcendental equations with eigenvalues of the boundary problem. Such solutions can hardly be used in engineering applications, especially in cases when a solution to a certain problem is only an intermediate stage in other problems (such as thermoelasticity and control problems, inverse problems, etc.) which can be solved effectively only by finding analytical solutions to the initial problems. Therefore, an urgent problem now is to develop new methods of obtaining analytical solutions to the abovementioned problems, at least approximate ones. The study employed methods of additional boundary conditions and additional unknown functions in the integral method of heat balance. High-precision approximate analytical solutions to the transient heat conduction problem with nonhomogeneous physical properties of the medium for an infinite plate under symmetric boundary conditions of the first type have been obtained. The initial problem for partial differential equations is reduced to two problems in which ordinary differential equations are integrated. Additional boundary conditions are defined in such a way that their fulfillment in accordance with the new method is equivalent to the result of solving the initial partial differential equation at the boundary points and at the temperature perturbation front (for the first stage of the process). By combining methods with finite and infinite heat propagation rate we have been able to obtain high-precision analytical solutions for the whole time range of the unsteady process including its small and ultra small values. The solutions look like simple algebraical polynomials not including special functions (Bessel, Legendre, gamma-functions and others). Since it is not necessary to directly integrate the initial equations by the space variable and to reduce them to ordinary differential equations with additional unknown functions, the considered method can be used for solving complex boundary problems in which differential equations do not allow distinguishing between the variables (into nonlinear, with linear boundary conditions and heat sources, etc.).
(075)Differential equations for the locally nonequilibrium heat transfer in an infi nite plate, in which the nonlocality of this plate in space and time is taken into account, have been derived. Exact analytical solutions of these equations were obtained and analyzed in detail. This analysis has shown that, in the case where the nonlocality of the plate in space and time is taken into account in the indicated equations, they do not give abrupt changes in the temperature of the plate and negative temperatures for it. It was established that, in locally nonequilibrium processes, the fi rst-kind boundary conditions (a heat shock) cannot be realized instantaneously at any conditions of heat exchange between a body and the environment and that, consequently, in the process of this exchange, the coeffi cient of heat transfer cannot exceed any limiting values determined by the physical properties (including the relaxation ones) of the body.Keywords: locally nonequilibrium heat exchange, space and time nonlocality, relaxation coeffi cient, heat fl ow, temperature gradient.
Introduction.In the classical theory of transfer processes or in classical thermodynamics of irreversible processes, the principle of local thermodynamic equilibrium and the hypothesis of a continuum are used, i.e., it is assumed that any small element of a medium can be at the state of local equilibrium despite the existence of temperature, concentration, and other gradients in the system as a whole [1, 2]. A system is at the state of local equilibrium in the case where the rate of change in its macroparameters, determined by the boundary conditions (the rate of disturbance of the equilibrium), is markedly smaller than the rate of attainment of local equilibrium by the system (the rate of relaxation of the system to local equilibrium), i.e., at v >> ϑ , where v =
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