Pamukkale University Journal of Engineering Sciences (Jan 1995)

SOLUTION OF TRANSIENT HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEM BY THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

  • Süleyman TAŞGETİREN,
  • Muzaffer TOPCU

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 45 – 51

Abstract

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Determination of temperature distribution is generally the first step in the design of machine elements subjected to ubnormal temperatures in their service life and for selection of materials. During this heat transfer analysis, the boundary and enviromental conditions must be modeled realistically and the geometry must be well represented. A variety of materials deviating from simple constant property isotropic material to composit materials having different properties according to direction of reinforcements are to be analysed. Then, the finite element method finds a large application area due to its use of same notation in heat transfer analysis and mechanical analysis of elements. In this study, the general formulation of two dimensional transient heat conduction is developed and a sample solution is given for arectangular bar subjected to convection baundary condition.

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