Identification of latent heat of biological tissue subjected to the freezing

In the paper the inverse problem consisting in the identification of volumetric latent heat of tissue subjected to the freezing is presented. Three different hypotheses concerning the substitute thermal capacity associated with the latent heat evolution are discussed. The 1D problem is considered and on the basis of the cooling curve on the skin surface the volumetric latent heat is estimated. In order to solve the inverse problem the least squares method containing the sensitivity coefficients is applied. In the final part of the paper the results of computations are shown.