A Numerical Method for a Heat Conduction Model in a Double-Pane Window

Abstract

In this article, we propose a one-dimensional heat conduction model for a double-pane window with a temperature-jump boundary condition and a thermal lagging interfacial effect condition between layers. We construct a second-order accurate finite difference scheme to solve the heat conduction problem. The designed scheme is mainly based on approximations satisfying the facts that all inner grid points has second-order temporal and spatial truncation errors, while at the boundary points and at inter-facial points has second-order temporal truncation error and first-order spatial truncation error, respectively. We prove that the finite difference scheme introduced is unconditionally stable, convergent, and has a rate of convergence two in space and time for the L∞-norm. Moreover, we give a numerical example to confirm our theoretical results.