Numerical investigation of heat conduction with multiple moving heat sources (Q2337848)

Summary: This paper is concerned about the efficiently numerical simulation of heat conduction problems with multiple heat sources that are allowed to move with different speeds. Based on the dynamical domain decomposition upon the trajectories of moving sources, which are solved by a predictor-corrector algorithm, a non-overlapping domain-decomposed moving mesh method is developed. Such a method can not only generate the adaptive mesh efficiently by parallel computing, but also greatly simplify the discretization of the underlying equations without loss of accuracy. Numerical examples for various motions of sources are presented to illustrate the accuracy, the convergence rate and the efficiency of the proposed method. The dependence of the solution on the moving sources such as the types of motion and the distance between sources is numerically investigated. A blow-up phenomenon that occurs at multiple locations simultaneously can also be well observed for the case of symmetrically moving sources.