Conduction homework

The aim of this simulation is to show the temperature variation throughout the wall thickness. Try to use different material properties for different layers and plot the temperature variation through the wall thickness. Download the zip file and extract the contents. Go through the Readme file. Follow along with the provided How To Video file.

There are two ways to understand heat moving by conduction. The first way to think about how conduction works is that heat moves from one thing to another by touching. If you touch a hot surface, your hand feels hotter because the heat moves from the surface into your hand.

After the coils heat the bottom of the pot, the heat spreads through the whole pot, warming the sides of the pot, too. Many pot handles are plastic because, otherwise, heat would conduct up into the handle too and burn your hand! Another example would be a metal spoon in a hot liquid, like in this image.

During winter, we face a lot of snow and a drastic drop in outside temperature. The insulation of a house provides resistance to heat flow and can significantly lower heating costs. By installing insulation materials between the walls of the house, we can reduce the conductive heat flow.