The heat equation is:
where u is the temperature, α is the thermal diffusivity, and ∇² is the Laplacian operator. matlab codes for finite element analysis m files hot
% Solve the system u = K\F;
% Plot the solution surf(x, y, reshape(u, N, N)); xlabel('x'); ylabel('y'); zlabel('u(x,y)'); This M-file solves the 2D heat equation using the finite element method with a simple mesh and boundary conditions. The heat equation is: where u is the
% Assemble the stiffness matrix and load vector K = zeros(N, N); F = zeros(N, 1); for i = 1:N K(i, i) = 1/(x(i+1)-x(i)); F(i) = (x(i+1)-x(i))/2*f(x(i)); end α is the thermal diffusivity
% Create the mesh x = linspace(0, L, N+1);