Memory response on thermal wave propagation in an elastic solid with voids

Abstract

Fractional derivative is a widely accepted theory to describe the physical phenomena and the processes with memory responses which is defined in the form of convolution having kernels as power functions. Due to the shortcomings of power law distributions, some other forms of derivatives with few other kernel functions are proposed. This present study deals with a novel mathematical model of generalized thermoelasticity to investigate the transient phenomena for an infinite porous material subjected to the presence of distributed time-dependent heat source acting over the plane area. The heat transport equation for this problem is involving the memory dependent derivative on a slipping interval in the context of three-phase-lag (3PL) model of generalized thermoelasticity. Employing the Laplace transform as a tool, the analytical results for the distributions of the change in volume fraction field, temperature, stress, and displacement are obtained on solving the vector-matrix differential equation using eigenvalue approach. The numerical inversion of the Laplace transform is performed using the Zakian method. Excellent predictive capability is demonstrated due to the presence of memory dependent derivative and delay time also.

Communicated by Nickolay Banichuk.

Keywords:

• Eigenvalue approach
• thermoelastic porous material
• memory dependent derivative
• Laplace transform
• Zakian method

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Editor and the anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions on this article.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.