A peridynamic formulation for transient heat conduction in bodies with evolving discontinuities (Q419644)

A peridynamic formulation for modeling transient heat transfer in multi-dimensional domains is introduced. This formulation, which does not contain spatial derivatives of the temperature field, is suitable for modeling heat transfer in bodies with complexly evolving discontinuities such as growing cracks that interact in any arbitrary way. It is shown that the results from the peridynamic model for heat flow problems in 2D converge to the analytical solutions of the corresponding classical models, in the limit of the peridynamic horizon going to zero, while the number of nodes inside the horizon is kept constant.