NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUID FLOW AND

HEAT TRANSFER

MIA 502E

SPRING 2018

Homework 2

due to April, the 4th

 Question1 (50p)
Consider the following parabolic PDE:

u  2u
 x 2 for 0<x<1 [m] and t>0
t x

Develop Crank-Nicolson scheme for the determination of the u-distribution as a function of

position and time. The boundary conditions and initial condition are:

u  0, t   0 t  0
u u
 t0
x x 1 2
u  x ,0   x 1  x  0  x  1

You can take Δx = 0.1 and Δt = 2.5E-3. Fill the table with its numerical output for the first
two time steps:

i=1 i=2 i=3 i=4 i=5 i=6 i=7 i=8 i=9 i=10

Question2 (50p)

Consider the problem of the time-dependent 2D heat conduction in the 3x1 rectangular plate
shown below. Assume that initially the plate is at a room temperature of 18oC. Suppose that at
t=0, the temperature on the lower face is suddenly raised to 150oC. Estimate the time required
for the temperature of the center of the block to reach 30oC. Plot the temperature distribution
(isotherms) for t → ∞. Use Alternating Implicit Direction (ADI) obtain temperature distribution
over the plate which should be indicated in colors. Use computational domains such as 90x30
and 180x60 and compare your results for each mesh where b = 10 cm.

T  2T  2T
  0 xa 0 yb
t x 2 y 2