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Week 4: Lecture 17: First term approximation solution for radial systems

NPTEL IIT Bombay

The lecture focuses on deriving first-term approximation solutions for transient heat conduction problems involving radial systems, specifically cylinders and spheres, extending concepts previously applied to plane walls. The instructor explains that while the time-dependent behavior of temperature …

Week 4: Lecture 16: First term approximation solution for plane wall

NPTEL IIT Bombay

The lecture focuses on solving the transient heat conduction equation for a plane wall using an approximate first-term solution derived from non-dimensionalization. By transforming the governing partial differential equation, the temperature distribution is expressed as a function of dimensionless v …