Functional-Voxel Method in Problems of Geometric Modeling of Thermal Characteristics of Objects

The paper presents an approach developed on the basis of the functional voxel method to the geometric representation of the thermal expansion of objects and temperature stresses in a material when exposed to a surface of a heat source. A discrete geometric law of a single temperature stress in an isotropic heat-conducting body is derived, applicable in the concept of functional voxel modeling. Based on this law, functional-voxel models of thermal stress are developed for a single and distributed application of a heat source. Algorithms of functional-voxel modeling of temperature stress and expansion in the case of distributed thermal loading are presented, which make it possible to construct a loading region of a complex configuration, uniformly form a contour (surface) after material expansion and obtain information about changes in the length (volume) of products. The advantages of the proposed functional-voxel approach to modeling thermal expansion and stress over approaches based on the FEM are substantiated.