SOLVING 2-D NONLINEAR COUPLED HEAT AND MOISTURE TRANSFER PROBLEMS VIA A SELF-ADAPTIVE PRECISE ALGORITHM IN TIME DOMAIN

Aself-adaptiveprecisealgorithminthetimedomainwasemployedtosolve2-Dnonlinearcoupledheatandmoisturetransferproblems.Byexpandingvariablesatadiscretizedtimeinterval,thevariationsofvariablescanbedescribedmoreprecisely,andanonlinearcoupledinitialandboundaryvalueproblemwasconvertedintoaseriesofrecurrentlinearboundaryvalueproblemswhicharesolvedbyFEtechnique.Inthecomputation,noadditionalassumptionandthenonlineariterationarerequired,andacriterionforself-adaptivecomputationisproposedtomaintainsufficientcomputingaccuracyforthechangesizesoftimesteps.Inthenumericalcomparison,thevariationsofmaterialpropertieswithtemperature,moisturecontent,andbothtemperatureandmoisturecontentaretakenintoaccount,respectively.Satisfactoryresultshavebeenobtained,indicatingthattheproposedapproachiscapableofdealingwithcomplexnonlinearproblems.