Fast-converging series for heat conduction in the circular cylinder (Q701830)

The author studies steady-heat conduction in the finite, right-circular cylinder by using the method of Green's functions for a variety of boundary conditions. One motivation for the work is to find influence functions for boundary-element solutions in the solid cylinder. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, several Green's functions for the solid cylinder are given in double-sum form which are numerically better behaved than the classical triple-sum Green's functions. Secondly, an alternate triple-sum Green's function is derived using time partitioning, a general-purpose method to improve the convergence of steady Green's functions. Thirdly, integrals are carried out in order to produce series expressions for temperature caused by small heated regions on the boundaries, which have an application as influence functions for boundary-element methods. A specific application of this paper is a boundary-element simulation of the cylindrical substrate of a flush-mounted hot-film sensor.