

We have developed software modules for ten (10) fundamental topics in heat transfer. By combining this more fundamental approach with enhanced color-visualization techniques, these software modules allow a student to “see” - and thus perhaps to understand - the physics underlying a particular process. Often the result was a facility for doing more conventional calculations, only faster and usually the computed result was just a single “answer” - such as an overall convective heat-transfer coefficient or fin efficiency.īy contrast, our software uses modern numerical algorithms to solve the fundamental governing ordinary or partial-differential equations in real time.

In the past most instructional-software packages for heat & mass transfer were based on the “computerization” of existing analytical solutions and experimental correlations.
