Computational Study On Skin Tissue Freezing Using Three Phase Lag Bioheat Model
Abstract This paper considers the three-phase lag (TPL) bioheat model, to study the phase change phenomena in skin tissue during cryosurgery. The considered TPL model is based on the model of thermoelasticity, i.e., the combination of the rate of thermal conductivity and new phase lag $\left( {{\tau _v}} \right)$ due to thermal displacement. We establish an effective heat capacity based numerical algorithm to solve the non-linear governing equation for biological tissue freezing. We use radial basis functions (RBFs) and finite difference approximation for space and time derivative, respectively. We study the impact of three non-classical models, single-phase change (SPL), dual-phase lag (DPL), and triple-phase lag (TPL) on the freezing process. The effects of phase lags involved in the models on freezing are also the part of this study.