Accurate 3D multi-material EM-thermal modelling

作者:Cen, Wei; Hoppe, Ralph; Cai, Zhaoquan*; Yu, Zhuliang; Gu, Ning
来源:AIP Advances, 2017, 7(2): 025214.
DOI:10.1063/1.4977742

摘要

As the second order finite difference expressions discretize the spatial derivatives in heat equation accurately only for the homogenous material model with constant thermal conductivity, we proposed a method to numerically determinate 3-dimensional thermal response due to electromagn etic exposure accurately even for inhomogenous model. In this paper, the 3-dimensional (3D) EM-thermal modelling is performed with finite volume method. High numerical accuracy of the proposed method allow in vitro experiments with inhomogeneous tissues and non-uniform meshes. The validity of the method is demonstrated by comparing results with the fraction-step semi-implicit method.