TY - JOUR
TI - On the semi-inverse method and variational principle
AU - Li Xue-Wei
AU - Li Ya
AU - He Ji-Huan
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2013
VL - 17
IS - 5
SP - 1565
EP - 1568
PT - Article
AB - In this Open Forum, Liu et al. proved the equivalence between He-Lee 2009  variational principle and that by Tao and Chen (Tao, Z. L., Chen, G. H.,  Thermal Science, 17(2013), pp. 951-952) for one dimensional heat conduction.  We confirm the correction of Liu et al.’s proof, and give a short remark on  the history of the semi-inverse method for establishment of a generalized  variational principle.