Axisymmetric stationary heat conduction problem for half-space with temperature-dependent properties

Abstract

The study examines problems of heat conduction in a half-space with a thermal conductivity coefficient that is dependent on temperature. A boundary plane is heated locally in a circle zone at a given temperature as a function of radius. A solution is obtained for any function that describes temperature in the heating zone. Two special cases are investigated in detail, namely Case 1 with given constant temperature in the circle zone and Case 2 with temperature given as a function of radius, r. The temperature of the boundary on the exterior of the heating zone is assumed as zero. The Hankel transform method is applied to obtain a solution for the formulated problem. The effect of thermal properties on temperature distributions in the considered body is investigated. The obtained results were compared with finite element method model.