In the design of heat exchangers, it is necessary to determine the heat transfer rate between hot and cold fluids in order to calculate the overall heat transfer coefficient and the heat exchanger efficiency. Heat transfer rate can be determined by inverse methods. In this study, the unknown space-time dependent heat flux imposed on the wall of a heat exchanger internal tube is estimated by app...

in this paper, a numerical solution of an inverse non-dimensional heat conduction problem by spline method will be considered. the given heat conduction equation, the boundary condition, and the initial condition are presented in a dimensionless form. a set of temperature measurements at a single sensor location inside the heat conduction body is required. the result show that the proposed meth...

it is well known that the parabolic partial differential equationsin two or more space dimensions with overspecified boundary data,feature in the mathematical modeling of many phenomena. in thisarticle, an inverse problem of determining an unknowntime-dependent source term of a parabolic equation in generaldimensions is considered. employing some transformations, wechange the inverse problem to...