TY - EJOU AU - Fabre, Antoine AU - Hristov, Jordan AU - Bennacer, Rachid TI - Transient Heat Conduction in Materials with Linear Power-Law Temperature-Dependent Thermal Conductivity: Integral-Balance Approach T2 - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing PY - 2016 VL - 12 IS - 2 SN - 1555-2578 AB - Closed form approximate solutions to nonlinear transient heat conduction with linear power-law k = k0(1±βTm) temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity have been developed by the integral-balance integral method under transient conditions. The solutions use improved direct approaches of the integral method and avoid the commonly used linearization by the Kirchhoff transformation. The main steps in the new solutions are improvements in the integration technique of the double-integration technique and the optimization of the exponent of the approximate parabolic profile with unspecified exponent. Solutions to Dirichlet boundary condition problem have been developed as examples by the classical Heat-balance Integral method (HBIM) and the Double-integration method (DIM). KW - Non-linear heat conduction KW - integral-balance solutions KW - temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity DO - 10.3970/fdmp.2016.012.069