Transient Conduction in an Infinite Plane Wall (OOI98-22)

This Java applet simulates the one-dimensional transient conduction in an infinite plane Wall.

Press the button     to see the visual representation of the transient conduction in an infinite plane Wall.

The wall is composed of a homogeneous conducting material. The wall borders (left and right sides of the picture) are exposed to a fluid. The fluid is the same and has the same temperature both left and right of the wall. There is a convection heat transfer between the borders and the fluid.

The graph illustrates the time evolution of the change in the wall temperature along the wall cross-section.

The thermal properties of the wall cannot be changed during the simulation.

The applet allows to see the time evolution of the wall temperature on the same picture by filling the box with the label "trace history"

If the option of tracing history is selected, one can follow the temperature in a certain depth by clicking on the wall before the initialisation. With such option the position of interest cannot be changed during the simulation.

If the option of non-tracing history is selected, then one can see only one curve at every moment of time. But under such option a position of interest can be changed during the simulation by clicking on the wall any time .