Flexible profile approach to the conjugate heat transfer problem

TL;DR

This paper extends the flexible profile approach to conjugate heat transfer, enabling the creation of boundary condition independent thermal models that efficiently couple fluid and solid domains for diverse applications.

Contribution

The paper introduces an extension of the flexible profile approach to conjugate heat transfer, allowing independent compact modeling of fluid and solid domains for improved interface handling.

Findings

Enables independent compact modeling of fluid and solid domains.

Provides reliable results for arbitrary boundary conditions.

Radically solves domain interfacing in conjugate heat transfer.

Abstract

The flexible profile approach proposed earlier to create CTM (compact or reduced order thermal models) is extended to cover the area of conjugate heat transfer. The flexible profile approach is a methodology that allows building a highly boundary conditions independent CTM, with any desired degree of accuracy, that may adequately replace detailed 3D models for the whole spectrum of applications in which the modeled object may be used. The extension to conjugate problems radically solves the problem of interfacing two different domains. Each domain, fluid or solid, can be "compacted" independently creating two CTM that can be joined together to produce reliable results for any arbitrary set of external boundary conditions.