Application of hybrid-Trefftz element approach to transient heat conduction analysis

The paper presents a hybrid-Trefftz element approach for the numerical solution of transient linear heat conduction problems. In the proposed method, the transient heat conduction equation is first discretized with respect to time and then the resulting set of elliptic equations is solved by the corresponding time independent hybrid Trefftz element approach. At the end of the paper, the proposed method is assessed through numerical examples.

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