The invention discloses a thermal
diffusion imaging method based on an equivalent transport structure, and the method is characterized in that an equivalent velocity field is a gradient field (nearly no rotation) in a
passive cooling section and under the conditions of near
isotropy and near constant, and the
divergence of the equivalent velocity field presents an internal and external different sign source-sink ring structure at the boundary of an internal non-uniform / abnormal region. In addition, the first symbol overturning moment of the
divergence is utilized, the ring mid-value characteristic moment is obtained through ring domain mid-value or robust statistics, and the depth-time scale is established to complete the depth
estimation of the abnormal region. The method has the following beneficial effects: 1) the equivalent transport structure is strictly identical transformation, and artificial model approximation is avoided; (2) the robustness to
radiation gain drift and illumination unevenness is improved; the method comprises the steps of (1) providing a constant residual error and a non-negative inequality residual error, (2) weakening the dependence on a threshold value and empirical characteristics, (3) providing physically verifiable
quality control and explicitly alarming
convection /
anisotropy / non-Fourier effect for a conservation residual error, a non-negative inequality residual error and a rotation degree, and (5) linearly calibrating a depth-time scale in the same material and performing quantitative
estimation, and is suitable for complex components such as
aerospace composite materials and the like.