Modeling of Heat Distribution in Porous Aluminum Using Fractional Differential Equation

The authors present a model of heat conduction using the Caputo fractional derivative with respect to time. The presented model was used to reconstruct the thermal conductivity coefficient, heat transfer coefficient, initial condition and order of fractional derivative in the fractional heat conduct...

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Main Authors: Rafał Brociek, Damian Słota, Mariusz Król, Grzegorz Matula, Waldemar Kwaśny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-12-01
Series:Fractal and Fractional
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3110/1/1/17
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Summary:The authors present a model of heat conduction using the Caputo fractional derivative with respect to time. The presented model was used to reconstruct the thermal conductivity coefficient, heat transfer coefficient, initial condition and order of fractional derivative in the fractional heat conduction inverse problem. Additional information for the inverse problem was the temperature measurements obtained from porous aluminum. In this paper, the authors used a finite difference method to solve direct problems and the Real Ant Colony Optimization algorithm to find a minimum of certain functional (solve the inverse problem). Finally, the authors present the temperature values computed from the model and compare them with the measured data from real objects.
ISSN:2504-3110