Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject Engineering - Power Engineering, language: English, abstract: Inverse heat conduction problems occur in many theoretical and practical applications where it is difficult or practically impossible to measure the heat flux generated and the temperature of the layer conducting the heat flux to the body. Thus it becomes imperative to devise some means to cater for such a problem and estimate the heat flux inversely. Adaptive state estimator is one such technique which works by incorporating the semi-Markovian concept into a Bayesian estimation...