GREEN’S FUNCTION APPROACH TO THERMAL DEFLECTION OF A THIN HOLLOW CIRCULAR DISK UNDER AXISYMMETRIC HEAT SOURCE

ABSTRACT. A Green’s function approach is adopted to solve the two-dimensional thermoelastic problem of a thin hollow circular disk. Initially, the disk is kept at temperature T0(r, z). For times t > 0, the inner and outer circular edges are thermally insulated and the upper and lower surfaces of the disk are subjected to convection heat transfer with convection coefficient hc and fluid temperature T∞, while the disk is also subjected to the axisymmetric heat source. As a special case, different metallic disks have been considered. The results for temperature and thermal deflection has been computed numerically and illustrated graphically.