
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
A layered shell element for the thermal analysis of plates
exposed to non-uniform heating
A.E. Jeffers
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
ABSTRACT: This paper describes a heat transfer element that has been formulated to model the 3D thermal
response of plates subjected to non-uniform heating. Unlike existing elements, the present formulation uses a
combination of finite element and control volume techniques to discretize the plate into layers that are each
characterized by a temperature ...