Heat Transfer Interactive Simulations
CDF Simulations: Simulations whose names are in blue will play in most browsers, but most were programmed in Mathematica, and the CDF versions, which can be downloaded, are significantly faster and can be used offline with the Wolfram CDF plug-in. The QUIZ simulations follow a step-by-step procedure that requires user input.  Most simulations are also available at Wolfram Demonstration Project. Contact us at learncheme@gmail.com with questions or suggestions.


Conduction through a
Composite Wall
Heat Generation and Conduction
through Composite Walls
Identify Temperature Profiles for Heat Generation or Conduction through Composite Walls

Transient Conduction Through
a Plane Wall
Heat Transfer Through a Cylinder

Parallel and Counterflow
Heat Exchangers
Heat Transfer Between Flowing Liquids in Cylindrical Tubes
Prepared by C. Gruesbeck
Heat Transfer in Fins
Heat Transfer and Temperature
Distribution in a Fin
Heat Transfer in a
Bank of Tubes

Melting Ice

Injecting Water into
Liquid Nitrogen Tanks

Combined Free and
Forced Convection
Effect of Wind Chill on
Skin Temperature
Cooking a Turkey

Energy Transfer between
Two Blackbodies
Radiation Shielding of a
Spherical Black Body


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



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


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