International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 20 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 323-334
doi:10.1155/S0161171297000434
Thermoelastic waves in an infinite solid caused by a line heat source
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calary T2N 1N4, Canada
Received 19 October 1994; Revised 15 March 1995
Copyright © 1997 Ranjit S. Dhaliwal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The generalized thermoelasticity theory recently developed by Green and
Naghdi is employed to investigate thermoelastic interactions caused by a continuous line
heat source in a homogeneous isotropic unbounded solid. Hankel-Laplace transform
technique is used to solve the problem. Explicit expressions, for stress and temperature
fields, are obtained for small time approximation. Numerical values are displayed
graphically. Our results show that this theory predicts an infinite speed for heat
propagation in general, and includes the second sound phenomena as a special case.