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Heat Transfer Interactive Simulations

CDF Simulations: Download and use offline with Wolfram CDF plug-in.

Conduction through a Composite Wall	Heat Generation and Conduction through Composite Walls	Transient Conduction Through a Plane Wall	Heat Transfer Through a Cylinder
Cooking a Turkey	Heat Transfer in Fins	Heat Transfer and Temperature Distribution in a Fin	Heat Transfer in a Bank of Tubes
Combined Free and Forced Convection	Effect of Wind Chill on Skin Temperature	Energy Transfer between Two Blackbodies	Radiation Shielding of a Spherical Black Body
Parallel and Counterflow Heat Exchangers

MATLAB Simulations: Download and use with MATLAB software or download executable file (see individual simulation page for details). For an overview of MATLAB, visit MathWorks.

Steady-State 1D Heat Transfer in a Plane Wall	Lumped Capacitance Model vs Full Model	Temperature Profile in a Fin	Laminar Flow over a Flat Plate
Heat Exchanger

Energy 2D: Interactive Heat Transfer Simulations

Interactive heat transfer simulations developed by Charles Xie at the Concord Consortium.

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Browser-Based Simulations:
Play directly in most browsers.

Melting Ice

CDF Quiz Simulation: Download CDF file to use with Wolfram CDF plug-in.

Identify Temperature Profiles for Heat Generation or Conduction through Composite Walls