Numerical solution of hyperbolic heat conduction in cylindrical and spherical systems (Q1334879)

Hyperbolic heat conduction problems in cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems are studied numerically. The major difficulties in such problems is the suppression of numerical oscillations in the neighborhood of a jump discontinuity. The proposed numerical method combines the Laplace transform technique for the time domain and the control volume formulation for the space domain. Due to the application of a hyperbolic shape function, it can be seen from the examples that the numerical solutions are stable and accurate.