School of Mechanical, Materials &

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Advanced Numerical Methods in Engineering

(MM4NME)
Finite Element Method

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Transient Heat Transfer

Use a Galerkin weak formulation with five linear elements of length
solve the following initial boundary value problem:

to

with initial temperature field

T 2 x;

0 x 1/ 2

and boundary conditions

T (0, t ) 0
T (0.5, t )
0
x

for t 0

As time stepping algorithm use a full implicit approach with a time increment
of
.

Write the element equations for each of the five elements using linear
weighting and interpolation functions in term of their local coordinates
system.

Write the corresponding local matrix systems

Write the matrix assembly for the global solution

Solve the resulting five by five matrix system to find your solution at
the first two time steps, i.e.
and
.

Compare your Finite Element solution with the Finite Difference solution
given in class using the same time stepping algorithm, i.e. full implicit
approach.