A new three-dimensional heat flux-temperature integral relationship for half-space transient diffusion (Q613929)

The authors start from the non steady heat equation \(\frac{1}{\alpha }\frac{ \partial T}{\partial t}(x,y,z,t)=(\frac{\partial ^{2}T}{\partial x^{2}}+ \frac{\partial ^{2}T}{\partial y^{2}}+\frac{\partial ^{2}T}{\partial z^{2}} )(x,y,z,t)\) posed in the domain \((0,\infty )\times \{x>0\), \(y,z\in (-\infty ,\infty )\}\). The initial condition \(T(x,y,z,0)=0\) is imposed. Fourier's law gives the expressions of the components of the heat flux in terms of the gradient of the temperature. The main purpose of the paper is to give new integral relationships between the component of the heat flux in the \(x\) -direction and the temperature. The temperature is first expressed in terms of the values of the heat flux in the \(x\)-direction on the surface \(x=0\). This leads to some singular integral equation. Then the heat flux in the \(x\) -direction can be computed in terms of the temperature and of its time derivative. The computations leading to these relationships are drawn using the properties of the operators which are involved and some Abel-like regularization process.