Assignment - 2

1. Consider the metallic square block shown in the figure below.

The block is initially heated at a temperature TW and kept in an ambience that is

at a lower temperatureT . The dimension of one side of the block is L. The block
is infinitely long in the z direction. The thermal diffusivity of the metal is  . The
physical boundary conditions have been shown in the figure. Complete the
formulation of the problem

(i) Write the non-dimensional governing equation.

(ii) Identify the solution domain
(iii) Write the non-dimensional form of the boundary conditions
(iv) Write the initial conditions.

2. In order to investigate and analyze the properties of numerical schemes, often

the following scalar (one-dimensional) convection equation is considered:

 
 0 or in short notation : t   x  0
t x

Here  is any scalar parameter. The spatial derivative is approximated by a

central difference scheme on an equidistant grid with x  Constant . Please
explain the following time-marching schemes based on the scalar transport
equation:

A : explicit Euler scheme

 B : implicit Euler scheme
C: three-point backward scheme (implicit)
D: Lax-Keller scheme (explicit)
E: Lax-Wendroff scheme (explicit)
F: Mac Cormack scheme (predictor-corrector, explicit)
G: Low- storage Runge-Kutta scheme (3 sub-steps, explicit)

Furthermore, the tasks are the following:

 Please determine the spatial and temporal truncation error of scheme A

and D. based on Taylor series expansions. Prove the consistency of the
schemes.
 Explain the stability analysis of von Neumann based on scheme A and B.