Trouble with my for loop and graph
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The following code is not plotting the temperature distriutuon as desired. The graph should be much smoother. I ran this by my teacher. He said all of my coeficients are good, but was no help in fixing the code. All the math is good, worked out and approved. something is just weird with my code. Hoping someone can see something obvious that I may be missing. Edit: I added an attachment of the i=2:n-2 loop, as well as the governing equations/PDE. The boundary conditions are just the Ri and Rf values with the initial conditions of Ti= 20 degrees C and Tf is 790 C
clear
clc
close all
%Define Constants
rho = 150;
cp = 2300;
k = 0.30;
Ri = 0.0716;
Ro = 0.0970;
Ti = 20;
Tf = 790;
alpha = k/(rho*cp);
q_ppp = -100000;
%Position and Time
N=51;
r=linspace(Ri, Ro, N);
dr=r(2)-r(1);
ti=0;
tf=60;
dt=0.01;
t=ti:dt:tf;
M=length(t);
T=zeros(N,M); %(Row,Column)
T(:,1) = Ti; %Ti
T(N,:)= Tf; %Tf
% % 5 Spatial Discretization
A = zeros(N-1,N-1);
d = zeros(N-1,1);
b1 = -(2*alpha/(dr^2)); % for i=1, T2
c1 = 2*alpha/(dr^2); %i=1, T1
bn = -2*alpha/dr^2; %bn-1, %Tn-1
an = ((alpha/(dr^2))*(1-(dr/(r(N-1))))); %an-1, Tn-2
A(1,1) = b1;
A(1,2) = c1;
A(N-1,N-1) = bn;
A(N-1,N-2) = an;
for j = 2:N-2
A(j,j) = (-2*alpha/(dr^2)); %b, Ti
A(j,j-1) = (alpha/dr^2)-(alpha/(r(j)*dr)); %a, %ti-1
A(j,j+1) = (alpha/dr^2)+(alpha/(r(j)*dr)); %c, Ti+1
end
d(1) = q_ppp/(rho*cp);
d(N-1) = q_ppp/(rho*cp);
for j = 2:N-2
d(j) = q_ppp/(rho*cp);
end
% 6 Time Discretization
I = eye(N-1);
B = I - (dt/2)*A;
C = I + (dt/2)*A;
Binv = inv(B);
for n=1:M-1
T(1:N-1,n+1) = Binv*C*T(1:N-1,n) + Binv*dt*d;
end
disp('Plot')
plot(r,T(:,3000),'b')
title('Temperature Distribution')
xlabel('X')
ylabel('y')
hold on
grid on
grid minor
box on
6 Comments
Could you state that PDE including initial and boundary conditions you are trying to solve ?
One obvious error in your discretization is that you don't reference T(N,:) in your matrix A. This should at least be the case in the equation where you update T(N-1,:), but it isn't.
Kyle Langford
on 3 May 2023
Torsten
on 3 May 2023
Could you reformat the code ?
Here is a code you can compare your results with.
As I said: You never reference the outward temperature Tf in your code so as to initialize heat conduction from the boundary.
%Define Constants
rho = 150;
cp = 2300;
k = 0.30;
Ri = 0.0716;
Ro = 0.0970;
Ti = 20;
Tf = 790;
alpha = k/(rho*cp);
q_ppp = -100000;
x = linspace(Ri,Ro,501);
t = linspace(0,60,100);
m = 2;
sol = pdepe(m,@(x,t,u,dudx)heatsphere(x,t,u,dudx,rho,cp,k,q_ppp),@(x)heatic(x,Ro,Ti,Tf),@(xl,ul,xr,ur,t)heatbc(xl,ul,xr,ur,t,Tf),x,t);
u = sol(:,:,1);
plot(x,[u(10,:);u(30,:);u(50,:);u(70,:);u(90,:);u(100,:)])
grid on
function [c,f,s] = heatsphere(x,t,u,dudx,rho,cp,k,q_ppp)
c = rho*cp;
f = k*dudx;
s = q_ppp;
end
function u0 = heatic(x,Ro,Ti,Tf)
if x==Ro
u0 = Tf;
else
u0 = Ti;
end
end
function [pl,ql,pr,qr] = heatbc(xl,ul,xr,ur,t,Tf)
pl = 0;
ql = 1;
pr = ur-Tf;
qr = 0;
end
Kyle Langford
on 3 May 2023
Kyle Langford
on 3 May 2023
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