A high-order multi-scale method and its convergence analysis for temperature-dependent nonlinear thermal radiation problems of composite structures

Accurate prediction of the nonlinear radiation thermal transfer in composite structures with temperature-dependent properties is significant in high-temperature applications of the materials. This study establishes a high-accuracy multi-scale computational model incorporating novel high-order correction terms for the high-fidelity simulation of nonlinear thermal radiation in composite structures, enabling local balance preserving of heat quantity. Moreover, an explicit convergence rate is also derived for the resulting high-order multi-scale solutions. Furthermore, an efficient multi-scale algorithm consisting of off-line and on-line computation stages is developed for high-accuracy simulation of nonlinear thermal radiation behavior in composite structures, and corresponding convergence analysis is also obtained. Two- and three-dimensional numerical examples are presented to validate the competitive advantages of the proposed multi-scale approach, not only exceptional numerical accuracy, but also reduced computational cost in both storage requirements and computational time.