The present study aims to perform inverse analysis of a conjugate heat transfer problem including conduction and forced convection via the quasi-Newton method. The inverse analysis is defined for a heat source that is surrounded by a solid medium which is exposed to a free stream in external flow.
The objective of the inverse design problem is finding temperature distribution of the heat source as thermal boundary condition to establish a prescribed temperature along the interface of solid body and fluid. This problem is a simplified version of thermal-based ice protection systems in which the formation of ice is avoided by maintaining the interface of fluid and solid at a specified temperature.
The effects of the different pertinent parameters such as Reynolds number, interface temperature and thermal conductivity ratio of fluid and solid mediums are analyzed.
This paper fulfils the analysis to study how thermal based anti-icing system can be used with different heat source shapes.
