CFD - Assignment 1

Note:
(i) You are required to enclose a printout of the code(s) you have developed.
(ii) Please write down the date of submission conspicuously on the cover page of your
report.
It is required to obtain the steady-state temperature distribution on a 2D rectangular plate
as shown below.

Dirichlet B.C.: y = 0, T = T1; x = 0, T = T2; y = H, T = T3; x = L, T = T4;

(T1 = 100oC, T2 = T3 = T4 = 0)
Governing equation for steady 2D heat conduction (which if there is no heat generation is
a Laplace equation):
 2T  2T
 2T  2  2  0
x y
It is intended to solve this elliptic PDE subject to imposed boundary conditions. Select
constant spatial step sizes ∆x = ∆y = 0.05 m, in which case imax = 21 and jmax = 41. The
temperature distribution is to be computed for a total of (imax -2)x(jmax -2) = 741 grid
points. Condition of convergence to be used is if ERROR < ERROR max, the solution has
converged where
j  jmax 1
i imax 1

ERROR = 
i 2
Ti ,nj1  Ti ,nj
j 2

ERRORmax = 0.01
 (a) Find the temperature distribution from the analytical solution given below at the
grid nodes and present the result in the format given in TABLE 1:
(b)
  n ( H  y )  
  1  ( 1) n sinh   
T  T1  2  L  sin  n x  
 
 n 1 n  n H   L 
sinh  
  L  

Carry out the summation for n = 1, … , 110 and use `long double’

TABLE 1

i j T (Gauss-Seidel) T (PSOR) T (Analytical)

11 1 - - -
11 2 - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --

11 41 - - -

Draw contours of constant temperature for the rectangular plate from results obtained by
Gauss-Seidel method. You may use TECPLOT (preferred) or GNU plot.