Two-Dimensional Temperature Field Distribution Reconstruction Based on Least Square Method and Radial Basis Function Approximation

Abstract

The information of temperature field distribution is complex but quite important for theoretical study and industrial applications, such as burning, drying, and heating, because it can reflect the internal running state of industrial equipment, assist to develop control strategy, and ensure safety in operation. Acoustic imaging is a kind of noncontact temperature measurement technique which is able to achieve temperature field distribution reconstruction. The process of temperature field distribution reconstruction using acoustic imaging is an inverse problem and its reconstruction performance depends on reconstruction algorithm. In this paper, a modified reconstruction algorithm is investigated. Compared with other reconstruction methods of least square algorithm and radial basis function approximation, the reconstruction results indicate that the modified reconstruction algorithm occupies the best information reflection of temperature field distribution and the reconstruction accuracy is improved.