Suppose we want to simulate the heating of a bar. The equation governing this phenomenon is the transient heat equation (Reddy 1993), which is :
Heat equation
Where r is the density, c is the specific heat of the material, A is the cross-sectional area of the material, T is the temperature, k is the thermal conductivity of the material, t is time, and q is the heat energy generated per unit of volume.
We could use a plot for vectors to view the temperature at every time interval. The vector will be plotted at time intervals of PLdelta.
It is possible to show a three dimensional plot, with the following axes: the dimension of the bar (X axis), the time (Y axis), and the temperature (Z axis).
Let q be a function of time. We could visualize this function in a two dimensional plot, and also obtain other information, for example, the total heat in the bar. We are going to put this last plot in a different form, because the scales of q(t) and the total heat could be quite different.
Finally, we want to put a listing of the total heat along time in a sepparate window. This can be done by means of the PRINT command.
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