Relationship Between the Nonlocal Effect and Lagging Behavior in Bioheat Transfer
Abstract Lots of generalized heat conduction models have been developed in recent decades, such as local thermal non-equilibrium model, phase lagging model and nonlocal heat conduction model. But no attempt was made to prove which model is better (or worse) than others, or whether there is a certain relationship between these different models. With this inspiration, we establish the nonlocal bioheat transfer equations with lagging time, and the two and three-temperature bioheat transfer equations with considering all the carries' heat conduction effect are also constructed. Comparing the two (or three)-temperature equation model with the nonlocal bioheat transfer models with lagging time, one may obtain: the lagging time tt of temperature gradient and the nonlocal characteristic length ?q in the space derivative items of heat flux have the same effect on heat transfer; when the heat transport occur among N energy carriers with considering the conduction effects of all carries, the heat transfer process are depend on the high-order effect of tqN-1, ttN-1 and ?t(2N-1) in nonlocal dual phase lag bioheat transfer model. This phenomenon is very important for biological and medical systems where numerous carriers may exist on the cellular level.