Numerical analysis of dynamic thermoelastic two-dimensional crack problem combined with non-Fourier heat transfer equation by finite-difference time-domain method

Abstract

In recent years, a variety of microscopes using heat sources, such as photoacoustic microscopes, have been developed. In this observation principle, reflection and diffraction phenomena of two waves with different properties, namely thermal wave and elastic wave, are utilized. However, the thermal wave cannot be reproduced using the classical Fourier-type heat conduction equation. In order to overcome this mathematical difficulty, we had derived a coupled nonlinear partial differential equation consisting of the heat conduction with a delay time and the dynamic thermoelastic equation, and had simulated numerically the propagation process of thermal and elastic waves for one-dimensional problem. In this study, thermal and elastic waves were simulated for a two-dimensional plane problem with and without defect using the finite-difference time-domain method. The results showed that the reflection and interference phenomena of two waves can employ for detecting small internal defects existing near the surface of target sample.