The FD model used to calculate the temperature of skin at different depths and times after

contacting a heat source is a good way to assess burn injuries. In the FD model, the temperature at
one point in the skin is a function of its previous temperature, as well as the previous temperatures of
the points adjacent to it.
So we set up an initial array of temperatures of all points in our system. Imagine a line with
several nodes on it. The entire line starts out a constant temperature, but then the first node
becomes an elevated temperature, and that temperature is then dispersed to the rest of the nodes.
So in the FD model to assess burns, the first node is the applied temperature, 373K. The rest of the
nodes, which represent the skin, start at 310K, which is resting body temperature. Then, the FD
model calculates the temperature at each node at a given point in time in the previously mentioned
manner.
At time continues, the applied temperature makes its way through the skin, elevating skin
temperature. In EM 1.7, those temperatures are calculated and put into array Temp, which becomes
useful later in determining the severity of burns.
These temperatures are compared to those acquired in EM 1.1, and the percent error is
calculated in the err array. The errors are very small, starting on the order of hundredths of a
percent and raising to the order of tenths of a percent as time goes on.