APPLICATION PROBLEM ON

GAUSS - SEIDAL METHOD

By
19M148,20M103
Consider a rectangular plate of sides 2.4 m x 3.0 m is heated to certain temperature for a particular
period of time and boundary conditions shown below. Find the temperature at the interior
nodes using a square grid with a length of 0.6 m using the Gauss-seidal method. Assume the
initial temperature guess at all interior nodes to be 0ºC.
y
300º C

3.0 m

75ºC 100ºC

50º C
x

2.4 m
 (i,j+1)

∆y (i,j+1)
∆x
Ti , j = Ti + 1 , j +Ti – 1 , j +Ti , j + 1 +Ti , j – 1
(i–1,j) (i,j) (i+1,j)
4
(i,j-1)
 y
300 ° C
T1 , 5 T2 , 5 T3 , 5 T4 , 5
T0 , 5

T0 , 4 ∆X = ∆y = 0.6 m
T1 , 4 T2 , 4 T3 , 4 T4 , 4

T0 , 3
75 ° C T1 , 3 T2 , 3 T3 , 3 T4 , 3 100 ° C
T0 , 2
T1 , 2 T2 , 2 T3 , 2 T4 , 2
T0, j = 75,j = 1,2,3,4
T0 , 1 Ti , 0 = 50 , I = 1,2,3
T1 , 1 T2 , 1 T3 , 1 T4 , 1

T0 , 0 X
T1 , 0 T2 , 0 T3 , 0 T4 , 0
50 ° C INNER NODES
ITERATION : 1 TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION
 When i = 1 and j = 1 y

T1 , 1 = T2 , 1 + T0 , 1 + T1 , 2 + T1 , 0
300° C
4
= 0 + 75 +0+ 50
4 100 102 135

= 31 . 2500 ° C
25 9.3 37
75 ° C 100° C
 i = 1 and j = 2
27 12 39
T1 , 2 = T0 , 2 + T1 , 3 + T2 , 2 +T1 , 1
4
31 20 43
= 75 + 0 + 0 + 26.5625
x
4 50° C
= 26.5625 ° C
ITERATION : 2 TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION
 When i = 1 and j = 1 y
T1.1 = T2.1 + T0.1 + T1.2 + T1.0
300° C
4
= 20.3125 + 75 + 26.5635 + 50
4 133 156 161

= 42 .9688 ° C
56 56 87
 i = 1 and j = 2 75° C 100° C

T1 , 2 = T0 , 2 + T1 , 3 + T2 , 2 + T1 , 1 39 29 56

4 43 37 56
= 75 + 25.3906 + 11.7188 + 31.2500
X
4 50° C
= 38.7695 ° C
 ABSOLUTE RELATIVE
 Ea = T 1 , 1 Present – T 1,1
previous APPROXIMATE ERROR
present
X 100 DISTRIBUTION
T 1,1
= 42.9688 – 31.2500
X 100
42.9688
= 27.271 % 25 % 34 % 16 %

Present previous
Ea = T 1, 2 – T 1, 2 54 % 83 % 58 %
X 100
present
T 1, 2 31 % 62 % 32 %
= 38.7695 - 26.5625
X 100 27 % 45 % 24 %
38.7695
X
= 31.4744 %
NODE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN THE PLATE (°C)
NUMBER OF ITERATIONS
1 2 10
T 1,1 31.2500 42.9688 73.0239
T 1,2 26.5625 38.7695 91.9585
T 1,3 25.3906 55.7861 119.0976
T 1,4 100.0977 133.2825 172.9755
T 2,1 20.3125 36.8164 76.6127
T 2,2 11.7188 30.8594 102.1577
T 2,3 9.2773 56.4880 137.3802
T 2,4 102.3438 156.1493 198.1055
T 3,1 42.5781 56.3477 82.4837
T 3,2 38.5742 56.0425 103.7757
T 3,3 36.9629 86.8393 130.8056
T 3,4 134.8267 160.7471 182.2278
Thank you