TY  - EJOU
AU  - Htike, H.  
AU  - Chen, W.  
AU  - Gu, Y.  

TI  - Singular Boundary Method for Heat Conduction in Layered Materials
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2011
VL  - 24
IS  - 1
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - In this paper, we investigate the application of the singular boundary method (SBM) to two-dimensional problems of steady-state heat conduction in isotropic bimaterials. A domain decomposition technique is employed where the bimaterial is decomposed into two subdomains, and in each subdomain, the solution is approximated separately by an SBM-type expansion. The proposed method is tested and compared on several benchmark test problems, and its relative merits over the other boundary discretization methods, such as the method of fundamental solution (MFS) and the boundary element method (BEM), are also discussed.
KW  - Singular boundary method
KW  -  origin intensity factor
KW  -  heat conduction
KW  -  bimaterials
KW  -  meshless

DO  - 10.3970/cmc.2011.024.001