High-order three-scale computational method for heat conduction problems of axisymmetric composite structures with multiple spatial scales

This study develops a novel high-order three-scale (HOTS) computational method for heat conduction problems of axisymmetric composite structures with multiple spatial scales. The heterogeneities of the composites are taken into account by periodic distributions of unit cells on the mesoscale and microscale. Firstly, the multiscale asymptotic analysis for these multiscale problems is given detailedly. Based on the above-mentioned analysis, the new unified micro-meso-macro HOTS approximate solutions are successfully constructed for these multiscale problems. Two classes of auxiliary cell functions are established on the mesoscale and microscale. Then, the error analyses for the conventional two-scale solutions, low-order three-scale (LOTS) solutions and HOTS solutions are obtained in the pointwise sense, which illustrate the necessity of developing HOTS solutions for simulating the heat conduction behaviors of composite structures with multiple periodic configurations. Furthermore, the corresponding HOTS numerical algorithm based on finite element method (FEM) is brought forward in details. Finally, some numerical examples are presented to verify the feasibility and validity of our HOTS computational method. In this paper, a unified three-scale computational framework is established for heat conduction problems of axisymmetric composite structures with multiple spatial scales.