Universidad Politécnica Salesiana

Ingeniería Industrial

Nombre. Mateo Santiny Moya Cueva

The first step in solving a heat transfer problem is to create a thermal analysis model. This is a container that
holds the geometry, thermal material properties, internal heat sources, temperature on the boundaries, heat
fluxes through the boundaries, mesh, and initial conditions.

thermalmodel = createpde('thermal','transient');

Import Geometry

Add the block geometry to the thermal model by using the geometryFromEdges function. The geometry
description file for this problem is called crackg.m.

geometryFromEdges(thermalmodel,@crackg);

Plot the geometry, displaying edge labels.

pdegplot(thermalmodel,'EdgeLabels','on')
ylim([-2,2])
axis square

Specify Thermal Properties of Material

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Specify the thermal conductivity, mass density, and specific heat of the material.

thermalProperties(thermalmodel,'ThermalConductivity',10,...
'MassDensity',10,...
'SpecificHeat',100);

Apply Boundary Conditions

Specify the temperature on the left edge as 100, and constant heat flow to the exterior through the right edge
as -10. The toolbox uses the default insulating boundary condition for all other boundaries.

thermalBC(thermalmodel,'Edge',6,'Temperature',100);
thermalBC(thermalmodel,'Edge',1,'HeatFlux',-10);

Set Initial Conditions

Set an initial value of 0 for the temperature.

thermalIC(thermalmodel,0);

Generate Mesh

Create and plot a mesh.

generateMesh(thermalmodel);
figure
pdemesh(thermalmodel)
title('Mesh with Quadratic Triangular Elements')

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Specify Solution Times

Set solution times to be 0 to 5 seconds in steps of 1/2.

tlist = 0:0.5:10;

Calculate Solution

Use the solve function to calculate the solution.

thermalresults = solve(thermalmodel,tlist)

thermalresults =
TransientThermalResults with properties:

Temperature: [1320×21 double]

SolutionTimes: [0 0.5000 1 1.5000 2 2.5000 3 3.5000 4 4.5000 5 5.5000 6 6.5000 7 7.5000 8 8.5000 9 9.5000 10]
XGradients: [1320×21 double]
YGradients: [1320×21 double]
ZGradients: []
Mesh: [1×1 FEMesh]

Evaluate Heat Flux

Compute the heat flux density.

[qx,qy] = evaluateHeatFlux(thermalresults);

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Plot Temperature Distribution and Heat Flux

Plot the solution at the final time step, t = 5.0 seconds, with isothermal lines using a contour plot, and plot the
heat flux vector field using arrows.

pdeplot(thermalmodel,'XYData',thermalresults.Temperature(:,end), ...
'Contour','on',...
'FlowData',[qx(:,end),qy(:,end)], ...
'ColorMap','hot')