% Conduction through three layered planar wall with convection. % Ref: A.J. Chapman "Fundamentals of Heat Transfer", Macmillan, 1987 % Example 2.2, pages 46-47. %....................................................................... % Outside (_o) convection at 35C to facing brick (_f) to brick (_b) % to wall plaster (_p) to inside (_i) convection at 22C. Note the % essential BC are hidden in the convection air temperatures (T_o, T_i). % convection x_1 x_2 x_3 x_4 convection % [air, h_o, T_o] *---(1)---*---(2)---*---(3)---* [air, h_i, T_i] % T_1 T_2 T_3 T_4 % (P1) (L2) (L2) (L2) (P1) % Connectivity list: e i j % 1 1 2 % L2 % 2 2 3 % L2 % 3 3 4 % L2 % 4 1 0 % P1 % 5 4 0 % P1 %....................................................................... % Set given constants L_f = 0.1 ; L_b = 0.15 ; L_p = 0.0125 ; % conduction lengths K_f = 1.32 ; K_b = 0.69 ; K_p = 0.48 ; % thermal conductivities T_o = 35 ; T_i = 22 ; % air temperatures (out, in) h_o = 30 ; h_i = 8 ; % convection coefficients % Manually assemble 4 by 4 square matrix terms %DOF: 1 2 3 4 S=[(K_f/L_f+h_o), -K_f/L_f, 0, 0, ; ... -K_f/L_f, (K_f/L_f+ K_b/L_b), -K_b/L_b, 0, ; ... 0, -K_b/L_b, (K_b/L_b+K_p/L_p), -K_p/L_p, ; ... 0, 0, -K_p/L_p, (K_p/L_p+h_i)] C = [h_o*T_o; 0; 0; h_i*T_i] % Assemble 4 by 1 source terms % Here EBCs are automatic (why) T = S \ C % Solve for four temperatures (C) q_f = -K_f * (T(2) - T(1)) / L_f % heat flux through wall (W/m^2) % Plot the temperature results X = [0, L_f, (L_f+L_b), (L_f+L_b+L_p)] ; % merge lengths clf ; hold on ; grid on % clear & keep dX = (X(4) - X(1)) / 10 ; axis([(X(1)-dX) (X(4)+dX) T_i T_o]) plot (X, T, 'ko') ; plot (X(1), T_o, 'r<') % nodal and surface legend ('Nodal values', 'Air surface') plot (X, T, 'k-') ; plot (X(4), T_i, 'r<') % elements points title ('Temperature Through a Three Material Wall') xlabel ('Position (m)') ; ylabel ('Temperature (C)') % S = [ 43.2000 -13.2000 0 0 % -13.2000 17.8000 -4.6000 0 % 0 -4.6000 43.0000 -38.4000 % 0 0 -38.4000 46.4000 ] % C = [ 1050 0 0 176] % T = [ 34.0925 32.0301 26.1119 25.4030 ] % q_f = 27.2238