On Certain Applications of the Hyperbolic Heat Transfer Equation and Methods for Its Solution

When creating new technological processes based on the use of high-intensity energy flows, it is necessary to take into account the finite speed of heat transfer. This can be done using the hyperbolic heat transfer equation obtained by A. V. Lykov within the framework of nonequilibrium phenomenological thermodynamics as a consequence of a generalization of the Fourier law for flows and the equation of thermal balance. In previous works, V. N. Khankhasaev modeled the process of switching off an electric arc in a gas flow using this equation. In this paper, we present a mathematical model of this process including the period of stable burning of an electric arc until the shutdown moment, which consists of the replacement of the strongly hyperbolic heat transfer equation by a hyperbolicparabolic equation. For the mixed heat transfer equation obtained, we state certain boundary-value problems, solve them by numerical algorithms, and obtain temperature fields that are consistent with the available experimental data. © 2021, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.