COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING 42 (1984) 357 NORTH-HOLLAND

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Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer, Vol. II, R.W. Lewis, K. Morgan and B.A. Schrefler, eds. (Wiley, Chicester, 1983) f39.95, ISBN O-471900648.

The present book contains a selection of the twenty most interesting papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Numerical Methods in Thermal Problems held in Venice, Italy, July 1981.

It is a multi-author presentation which gives an overall picture of the ‘state of the art’ and significant new developments in the modelling area including also important industrial applications of traditional methods in the vast field of heat transfer.

The book is the second volume in a series of publications. The first volume which includes the best contributions of the 1st Conference on Numerical Methods in Thermal Problems at Swansea, July 1979, was published in 1981. The third volume which comprises the twenty most important papers of the 3rd International Conference on the same topic, held at Seattle in August 1983, is to be published in 1984.

The first eleven contributions of the present volume deal with new developments in the modelling area of conduction-convection problems, e.g. exact finite diffusion elements, inverse techniques, a moving grid finite element formulation for better integration schemes in steep gradient mode~ling as well as prediction of turbulent heat transfer by the finite clement method.

Special attention is given here to the important area of natural convection (heated cavities such as, for instance, solar cells, thermal insulation as well as cooling of rotors, transformers. etc.). A wide range of numerical techniques is covered, i.e. the use of influence functions, penalty finite elements, lumped parameter method, three-dimensional boundary elements and finite differences.

The remaining papers deal with more practical applications demonstrating, on the one hand, the simulation of new energy sources such as geothermal reservoirs and solar radiation and, on the other hand, traditional methods in modefling the effects of fire, ablation, heat flow in porous rock, liquefaction of coal and determination of residual thermal stress in sol- idification problems (welding, iron ore sintering processes) taking into account phase change effects (transformation plasticity and volume change).

J. Szimmat

0045’7825/84/$3.00 0 1984, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland)