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Paper ANSYS AND MATLAB
Paper ANSYS AND MATLAB
Paper ANSYS AND MATLAB
Read material
properties Calculate element heat
fluxes and temperature
gradients
Read element connectivity
20 mm
90 mm
Figure 2: Aluminum cooling fins studied using finite element programs (taken from text by
Moaveni11, page 309)
Figure 3: Temperature distribution in fin, as calculated by the Matlab-based “fem_main”
program and plotted by the “fem_post” program