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Lumped Capacitance Method
The Lumped Capacitance Method is a simplification technique for solving unsteady-state heat transfer problems. It assumes that thermal properties are uniform throughout a solid body and that temperature variations within the object are negligible. This approach enables engineers to solve complex transient heat conduction problems using ordinary differential equations rather than partial differential equations.
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- Carslaw, H. S., & Jaeger, J. C. (1959). Conduction of Heat in Solids. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198533689
- Incropera, F. P., DeWitt, D. P., Bergman, T. L., & Lavine, A. S. (2007). Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer (6th ed.). Wiley. ISBN: 978-0470055540