%0 Journal Article %A Cortés-Aburto, Obed %A Hernández-Pérez, José-Alfredo %A Rojas-Rodríguez, Rafael %A Aceves-Pérez, Rita-Marina %A Arroyo-Díaz, Salvador-Antonio %A Galaviz-Rodríguez, José-Víctor %D 2018 %I Begell House %K inverse heat transfer, Lévy flight, Particle Swarm Optimization %N 8 %P 703-717 %R 10.1615/HeatTransRes.2017016722 %T PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION WITH LÉVY FLIGHTS FOR HEAT SOURCE ESTIMATION %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/46784ef93dddff27,384b49846be20a1e,7802447343cc1477.html %V 49 %X In this work, a new approach, Lévy flight Particle Swarm Optimization, is applied to estimate the solution of an inverse heat transfer problem. Results show a good performance of this scheme. Compared with standard Particle Swarm Optimization, it exhibits better precision (from 3 to 5 parameters) and less running time (average of 24.90%). %8 2018-05-04