Semi-analytical treatments of conjugate heat transfer

A new algorithm is proposed based on semi-analytical methods to solve the conjugate heat transfer problems. In this respect, a problem of conjugate forced-convective flow over a heat-conducting plate is modeled and the integro-differential equation occurring in the problem is solved by two lately-proposed approaches, Adomian decomposition method and differential transform method. The solution of the governing integro-differential equation for temperature distribution of the plate is handled more easily and accurately by implementing Adomian decomposition method/differential transform method rather than other traditional methods such as perturbation method. A numerical approach is also performed via finite volume method to examine the validity of the results for temperature distribution of the plate obtained by Adomian decomposition method/differential transform method. It is shown that the expressions for the temperature distribution in the plate obtained from the two methods, Adomian decomposition method and differential transform method, are the same and show closer agreement to the results calculated from numerical work in comparison with the expression obtained by perturbation method existed in the literature.

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