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This paper proposes an innovative enriched second-order multi-scale (SOMS) computational method to simulate and analyze the nonlocal thermoelastic problems of blend composites with stress and heat flux gradient behaviors. The multiple periodical heterogeneities and periodic configurations of investigated blend composites in different substructures result in a huge computational cost for direct numerical simulations. The significant characteristics of this study are as follows. (1) The nonlocal properties of blend composites in constitutive equations are converted into the source terms of thermoelastic balance equations. The novel macro-micro coupled SOMS computational model for these transformed nonlocal multi-scale problems is derived on the basis of multi-scale asymptotic analysis. The nonlocal thermoelastic behaviors of blend composites can be merely uncovered in the enriched SOMS solutions. (2) The error analysis in the pointwise sense is presented to elucidate the importance and necessity of establishing the enriched SOMS solutions. Furthermore, an explicit error estimate for the SOMS approximate solutions is obtained in the integral sense for these nonlocal multi-scale problems. (3) A multi-scale numerical algorithm is presented to effectively simulate nonlocal thermoelastic problems of blend composites based on finite element method (FEM). Finally, the capability of the proposed enriched SOMS computational method is demonstrated by typical two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) blend composites, presenting not only the excellent numerical accuracy but also the less computational cost. This work proposes a unified multi-scale computational framework for enabling nonlocal thermoelastic behavior analysis of blend composites.

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This paper presents a new hybrid method for combined conductive-radiative heat transfer in two-dimensional enclosures. The participating medium is radiatively absorbing, emitting, scattering and gray. The radiative transport equation is solved by the discrete ordinate method, while the energy equation is solved by the dual reciprocity boundary element method. The various influencing factors i.e., radiation-conduction parameter, surface emissivity and single scattering albedo are investigated to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the present method.