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Multidimensional Analysis of Quenching: Comparison of Inverse Techniques
Understanding the surface heat transfer during quenching can be beneficial. Analysis to estimate the surface heat transfer from internal temperature measurements is referred to as the inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP). Function specification and gradient adjoint methods, which use a gradient search method coupled with an adjoint operator, are widely u led methods to solve the IHCP. In this paper the two methods are presented for the multidimensional case. The focus is not a rigorous comparison of numerical results. Instead after formulating the multidimensional solutions, issues associated with the numerical implementation and practical application of the methods are discussed. In addition, an experiment that measured the surface heat flux and temperatures for a transient experimental case is analyzed. Transient temperatures are used to estimate the surface heat flux, which is compared to the measured values. The estimated surface fluxes are comparable for the two methods.