Recent advances towards an effective virtual‐pulse (VIP) explicit time integral methodology for general multidimensional thermal analysis

Recent advances and progress towards the development of an effective Virtual‐Pulse (VIP) explicit time integral methodology of computation for applicability to general multidimensional non‐linear transient thermal analysis of structures and materials is overviewed. The computational methodology is derived from new and different perspectives and the theoretical basis as well as the practical applicability to multidimensional thermal analysis situations are detailed. The VIP methodology inherits improved accuracy and superior stability characteristics in comparison to the traditional approaches customarily employed by thermal analysts. With the notion of providing techniques for high‐speed computing environments and parallel architectures, the present approach is developed for such computations and also ideally suited for personal workstation computing environments. Results of the numerical test models for multidimensional problems validate the overall concepts for general applicability to thermal analysis situations.