Identification of radiant source in an enclosure by reduced model
Résumé
Abstract We propose an original method to recover from a few measurement points the integrity of the temperature field of a furnace heated by a radiant thermal source. The radiant thermal source is first identified via a low order reduced model based on based on AROMM (Amalgam Reduced Order Modal Model) method which preserves the integrity of the geometry. The minimization is performed via a trust-region reflective least squares algorithm implemented in MATLAB “lsqcurvefit” function. From that identified heat flux, the integrity of the thermal field is then recovered by direct simulation thanks to a reduced model of higher rank to have a better precision. The treated application is a complex titanium piece heated by two radiant panels placed in a furnace. With four measuring points, the temperature of the whole thermal scene is retrieved at all times with an average error around 1 K on the studied object.