Adaptive Fireworks Algorithm to solve 2D Inverse Heat Conduction Problem

A numerical method for coordinate and time-dependent Heat Transfer Coefficient estimation was developed. The main element of the developed estimation procedure is the Adaptive Fireworks Algorithm, which was used for solving the Inverse Heat Conduction Problem. A parallelized solution was implemented on graphic accelerator card to speed up the calculations and the Adaptive Fireworks Algorithm was compared with Genetic Algorithm based on their computation cost. In order to demonstrate the applicability of the method, Heat Transfer Coefficients, which appears during immersion quenching in an organic oil were estimated.