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ISSN Online: 2377-424X

ISBN CD: 1-56700-226-9

ISBN Online: 1-56700-225-0

International Heat Transfer Conference 13
August, 13-18, 2006, Sydney, Australia

NUCLEAR FUEL CELLS WITH VARIABLES SOURCES

Get access (open in a dialog) DOI: 10.1615/IHTC13.p7.120
12 pages

Abstract

In this work a study of the two-dimensional transient heat diffusion problems in domains of rectangular and elliptical geometries, submitted to boundary conditions of first kind, is carried out. For the problem formulation, the diffusive means were considered with variable thermo physical properties. The differential equation that governs the energy conservation is non-linear. In this context, the diffusion equation was linearized by using of the Transformed Integral of Kirchhoff. Transformations of the coordinate systems were realized in order to facilitate the boundary conditions application. The differential equation resulting after these transformations doesn't allow the application of the variable separation techniques. Thus, it was applied the Generalized Integral Transform Technique − GITT to solve the energy equation. As a result of this transformation it was obtained a coupled ordinary differential equation system that can be solved through classic numerical methods. Thus, for the determination of the evolution of the temperature field it was used the inversion formulas of all the transformations realized. Physical parameters of interest were, then, calculated and compared for several cylindrical cross section geometries.