MHRD/AICTE Sponsored Winter School on

Advanced Process Modeling & Control

Finite Volume Method in Heat

Transfer & Fluid Flow - III

Professor Parthapratim Gupta

Chemical Engineering Department
National Institute of Technology Durgapur

January 21, 2009

2-D Steady
Diffusion
2-D Steady Diffusion - 1

Grid
2-D Steady Diffusion - 2
2-D Steady Diffusion - 3
2-D Steady Diffusion - 4
3-D Steady
Diffusion
3-D Steady Diffusion - 1

Control Volume
3-D Steady Diffusion - 2
3-D Steady Diffusion - 3
Steady Diffusion Problems – Summary
Steady Diffusion Problems – Summary
Boundary Conditions:
 1-D Unsteady
Heat Conduction
1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction - 1
1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction – 2
1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction – 3

Explicit
scheme
φP0
Crank
Nicolson
scheme
φP Fully
Implicit
scheme

Explicit Crank Fully t t+Δt

Nicolson Implicit
1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction – 4
 1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction – 6

Source term is
Explicit Scheme; S Δx =

Without Source
 1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction – 7

Crank Nicolson Scheme;

Without Source
 1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction – 8

Fully Implicit Scheme; θ = 1

1-D Unsteady Heat Conduction – 9

Scheme Positive coefficient

Criterion
Explicit Δt < ρ (δx)2/ 2Γ

Crank-Nicholson Δt < ρ (δx)2/ Γ

Implicit Always positive