Heat Transfer Interactive Simulations
Our CDF simulations can be downloaded and used offline with the Wolfram CDF plug-in. They are also available on the Wolfram Demonstration Project website. Our interactive MATLAB simulations must be viewed using MATLAB software. They can be downloaded and viewed offline. Click on the (.m file) link to download the simulation file to your computer. Hover your mouse over the simulation preview for a description. For an overview of MATLAB, visit MathWorks. Please contact us at learnmeche@gmail.com if you identify problems with any of the simulations or if you have suggestions for simulations we might prepare.

Conduction through a Composite Wall
Heat Transfer and Temperature Distribution in a Fin
Combined Free and Forced Convection
Heat Transfer in a Bank of Tubes
Radiation Shielding of a Spherical Black Body

Energy Transfer between Two Blackbodies
Cooking a Turkey
Heat Transfer in Fins
Heat Generation and Conduction through Composite Walls
Effect of Wind Chill on Skin Temperature

Transient Conduction Through a Plane Wall
Heat Transfer Through a Cylinder
Laminar Flow over an Isothermal Flat Plate
Steady-State 1D Heat Transfer in a Plane Wall
Temperature Profile in a Fin

Heat Exchanger
Lumped Capacitance Model
vs Full Model
Cooling of a Composite Slab



Energy 2D is an interactive heat transfer simulation program that models all three types of heat transfer (conduction, convection, and radiation). It allows the user to design "computational experiments" to test a hypothesis or solve a problem. Developed by Charles Xie at the Concord Consortium.
Charles Xie, Interactive Heat Transfer Simulations for Everyone, The Physics Teacher, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 237-240, 2012.