Numerical experiments non the determination of undesteady state temperatura distribution in domains of complicated boundary shape

Abstract

This paper deals with a comparison of analytical and finite element results in the case of an unsteady heat conduction problem in simply and doubly connected plates of regular polygonal shape. A numerical solution is obtained by means of the powerful finite element method and the results are shown to agree with an approximate conformal mapping-variational technique previously developed by the first author and coworkers.