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Characterization of Thermal Transport in One-dimensional Solid Materials
Published on: January 26, 2014
Analytical solution of a non-homogeneous boundary-value problem for the transport equation in an earth to air energy
Landry Jean Pierre Gomat1, Diogène Vianney Pongui Ngoma1
1Laboratoire de Mécanique, Energétique et Ingénierie, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique -ENSP-, Université Marien NGouabi, Brazzaville, BP 69, Congo.
Abstract:
In this paper, a one-dimensional time-dependent transport equation with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, often encountered in the study of an Earth to Air Energy Exchanger, is solved by a practical analytical method. The initial condition function is not randomly set to verify the transport equation at the initial time, but determined as a first approximation to the solution of the transport equation (at ). As in the homotopy analysis method, the solution of the transport equation is expressed by the set of a basis function constructed with the obtained initial condition function. The components of the solution in this base, are time's functions deduced from the boundary conditions of the problem. Suitable endings are noticeable between the proposed model and experimental measurements.
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