UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE FEM FOR TRANSIENT LINEAR HEAT CONDUCTION ANALYSIS.

The paper presents a new method for the numerical solution of transient linear heat conduction problems. In the proposed method, the transient linear heat conduction equation is first integrated with respect to time over subsequent intervals. Then the resulting set of elliptic equations is discretized in space according to a finite-element procedure. The method is unconditionally stable. At the end of the paper, the effectiveness of the proposed method is assessed through some numerical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]