Solving Fully Three-Dimensional Microscale Dual Phase Lag Problem Using Mixed-Collocation, Finite Difference Discretization

Abstract

In the present work, we investigate laser heating of nanoscale thin-films irradiated in three dimensions using the dual phase lag (DPL) model. A numerical solution based on mixed-collocation, finite difference method has been employed to solve the DPL heat conduction equation. Direct substitution in the model transforms the differential equation into a linear system of equations in which related system is solved directly without preconditioning. Consistency, stability, and convergence of the proposed method based on a mixed-collocation, finite difference approximation are proved, and numerical results are presented. The general form of matrices and their corresponding eigenvalues are presented.