Accession Number:

AD0832509

Title:

ACCELERATION OF THE CONVERGENCE OF SUCCESSIVE OVER-RELAXATION BY ORDER OF MESH POINT SCANNING IN THE SOLUTION OF THE DIFFUSION EQUATION FOR TRANSIENT HEAT TRANSFER,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Cudahy, G. F.
• Kaplan, B.

Report Date:

1966-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

25.0

Abstract:

The report describes methods of improving the rate of convergence of the iterative solution of the two dimensional five point implicit finite difference representation of the diffusion equation of transient heat transfer through the use of various scanning techniques. Author

Descriptors:

• (*HEAT TRANSFER
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS)
• REACTOR OPERATION
• TRANSIENTS
• ITERATIONS
• CONVERGENCE
• BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
• DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS
• APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS)
• SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS
• OPTIMIZATION

Subject Categories:

• Nuclear Power Plants and Fission Reactor Engineering
• Thermodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE