Semi-analytic Methods

Although this book concentrates on analytic methods, this section considers some semi-analyticSemi-analytic methods for the study of heat transfer. These methods analytically satisfy either the interior governing equation or the boundary condition, but not both. Usually, the completeComplete solution requires some computation involving inversion of nth order linear algebraic equations which can be done by a computerComputer libraryLibrary program. Full finite difference or finite elements would have at least n2 order.