Application of GMRES Solver for the Large Scale Linear Systems from Boundary Element Method of the 2D Heat Conduction Problems
Boundary element solution method is introduced for radiation heat transfer problem with objects inside a 2-D enclosure, where shadow zone exists. Surfaces are assumed as diffuse gray in a transparent medium. Boundary integral and boundary element equations were derived from radiation transfer equation, and their theory is reviewed. Also the process of solution methods to implement the boundary element method is analysed and explained with consideration of shadow effects. BEM solution results are compared with two test problems and are found to be good agreements with the both analytic and ANSYS Fluent numerical solutions. Therefore the current BEM analysis for radiation heat transfer problem can be considered as verified, and their efficacy with engineering applicability is established as a result.