Abstract
An on-line methodology to solve two-dimensional inverse heat conduction problems (IHCP) is presented. A new input estimation approach based on the Kalman filtering technique is developed to estimate the two separate unknown heat flux inputs on the two boundaries in real time. A recursive relation between the observed value of the residual sequence with unknown heat flux and the theoretical residual sequence of the Kalman filter that assumes known heat flux is formulated. A real-time least-squares algorithm is derived that uses the residual innovation sequence to compute the magnitude of heat flux. This recursive approach facilitates practical implementation, and its capabilities are demonstrated in several typical cases with discontinuous and time-varying heat flux inputs.
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Address correspondence to Pan-Chio Tuan, Department of System Engineering, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Tahsi, Taoyuan, 33509, Taiwan, Republic of China.