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PROBLEM FORMULATION

In this section, we briefly describe the governing equations for heat transfer problems. Consider the domain shown in Fig. 1[*]. The governing equations are :

where is the temperature, the volumetric capacitance, the heat flux vector and the thermal conductivity tensor.

Figure 1: The considered domain.



Renaud Merle 2000-08-26