Analytical Solution of Non Linear DPL Bioheat Transfer Model for Temperature Dependent Metabolic Heat Source During Thermal Therapy

Abstract

In this research paper, the simulation based modelling of heat transfer in tissue under periodic boundary condition has been considered. The dual phase lag bioheat transfer (DPLBHT) model is implemented for computation of the temperature based thermal therapy treatment. The elements of volumetric heat source such as perfusion of blood, metabolism heat source and external heat source are considered in nonlinear DPL model. In this paper we have taken three cases for metabolic heat source namely, constant, linear and exponential. The combined two numerical methods which are based on finite difference scheme and Runge Kutta (4,5) scheme are exerted to solve the non-linear problem. We compute the exact solution for particular case. Numerical conclusions which are computed by numerical hybrid method are equated with exact result. It has been found that non linear DPL model with exponential metabolic heat source is closed to exact solution. We also expressed the effect of different parameters such as relaxation time, perfusion rate, metabolic heat source parameter, associated blood perfusion heat, heat source because of heat flux and temperature gradient etc.