Evan Selin & Terrance Hess
Find temperature at points throughout a square plate subject to several types of boundary conditions Boundary Conditions: ◦ 4 Constant Temperature surfaces ◦ 3 Constant Temperatures and 1 heat flux surface ◦ 2 Constant Temperatures and 2 heat flux surfaces Automate the construction of solver matrices
Required Properties: ◦ Temperatures at each boundary ◦ Conductivity, k ◦ Heat flux, q” (W/m 2 ) Positive flux entering plate
Equations used:
Determine (x,y) position of each node Create finite difference equations for desired set of boundary conditions Build augmented matrix for solution Solve matrices for temperatures at each node (matrix inversion) Build algorithm to automatically generate solution matrix Coefficient Matrix for 1 heat flux
T1 = 35 ℃, T2 = 50 ℃, T3 = 100 ℃, T4 = 50 ℃ 4 divisions5 divisions 9 divisions
T1 = 0 ℃, T2 = 50 ℃, T3 = 100 ℃, q” 4 = 50 W/m 2, k = 15.1 W/m*K 4 divisions 5 divisions 9 divisions
T1 = 100 ℃, q” 2 = 75 W/m 2, T3 = 50 ℃, q” 4 = -25 W/m 2, k = 15.1 W/m*K 4 divisions 5 divisions9 divisions
Numerical Solution Software is very complex Setting up equations is the hard part Matrix increases size on order of divisions squared Calculations take a long time for large very fine mesh