Intelligent Electrical Systems:

CHAPTER 7

Numerical Investigation of Heat Conduction in a Rectangular Composite Plate with Sinusoidal Heat Input from Top Wall

Debarghya Kar and Sumanta Banerjee

Mechanical Engineering Department, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata 700107, India.

ABSTRACT: The results of steady-state numerical simulation of heat conduction in a rectangular composite plate are presented in this chapter. Sources of heat generation within the plate are not considered, and heat input is assumed to take place only through the top edge. A three-dimensional solid of rectangular parallelepiped geometry of depth(z) substantially greater than the transverse dimensions(x,y) can be thermally treated and analysed as a 2–D plate, with $\frac{\partial T}{\partial x}~\frac{\partial T}{\partial y}\gg \frac{\partial T}{\partial z}$. The top edge ...