Multiscale computational method for transient heat conduction problems of periodic porous materials with diverse periodic configurations in different subdomains

In this paper, a novel multiscale computational method is presented for transient heat conduction problems of periodic porous materials with diverse periodic configurations in different subdomains. In these porous materials, heat transfer at microscale has an important impact on the macroscopic temperature field. Firstly, the second-order two-scale (SOTS) solutions for these multiscale problems are successfully obtained based on asymptotic homogenization method. Then, the error analysis in the pointwise sense is given to illustrate the importance of developing SOTS solutions. Furthermore, the error estimate for the SOTS approximate solutions in the integral sense is presented. In addition, a SOTS numerical algorithm is proposed to effectively solve these problems based on finite element method (FEM) and finite difference method (FDM). Finally, some numerical examples are shown, which demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the SOTS numerical algorithm we proposed. In this paper, a unified two-scale computational framework is established for transient heat conduction problems of periodic porous materials with diverse periodic configurations in different subdomains.