application-note · English
Investigation of Heat Transfer by Conduction
A two-page EAI educational applications note (Bulletin No. ALAC 64135) describing the analog simulation of one-dimensional heat conduction through a metal rod on the PACE TR-20 General Purpose Analog Computer. The system is modeled using a second-order central-difference approximation to the diffusion equation, dividing the rod into five equally spaced segments to yield a set of scaled ordinary differential equations. The note provides system equations, a computer diagram, and potentiometer and amplifier assignment sheets.
heat transfer simulationpartial differential equationsanalog computer programmingfinite difference methods