This section presents the numerical analyses used to evaluate the thermal behavior of the system. The model uses nodal energy balances and matrix methods to compute temperatures at each node of the simplified grid.

Include:

  • description of Example 4.2

  • description of Example 5.11

  • node diagrams

  • MATLAB solution method

The project requires solving these using matrix methods in MATLAB

2D Steady-State Analysis

Include:

  1. object diagram with nodes

  2. boundary conditions

  3. explanation of method

  4. contour plot of temperature field

  5. discussion of results

The contour plot should come from MATLAB

Transient Analysis – Explicit

Include:

  • explanation of explicit method

  • temperature evolution

  • embedded video of temperature contour animation

Transient Analysis – Implicit

Same structure but with implicit solver results.

Both transient analyses must include videos generated from MATLAB