TNSolver - A Thermal Network Solver

ME 331 Introduction to Heat Transfer

University of Washington

Autumn Quarter 2017

TNSolver is an open source thermal network solver, written using Octave, the open source implementation of the MATLAB programming language. TNSolver will run in Octave or MATLAB.

Lecture Notes

Date
Topic Slides Two per Page Note
10/3/17 Introduction to Heat Transfer Analysis with TNSolver Slides Two-up Slides Example input files
10/10/17 Fin Convection Experiment Slides Two-up Slides
10/17/17 Composite Wall Analysis Slides Two-up Slides Model Input Files
10/31/17 Radiation Experiment Slides Two-up Slides Sample Model Input File
11/21/17 Lumped Mass Experiment Slides Two-up Slides Lumped Mass Model Input Files

TNSolver Documents

Octave/MATLAB Source Code: .m Files

Installation Notes

  1. Download the zip file containing the TNSolver m-files and unzip it into an empty folder.
  2. Add the path to the TNSolver .m files folder in Octave/MATLAB:
  3. A step-by-step procedure to install Octave and Notepad++, on a Windows computer, is provided by UC Irvine.

TNSolver Input Files: .inp and Utility Functions: .m, Files

Input File Notes

  1. Download the zip file containing the TNSolver input files and unzip in a folder.
  2. If you are using MATLAB, you can use the MATLAB editor to edit the input files for TNSolver. Just double-click the file name in the Current Folder list.

Fin Convection Experiment Calculations

A set of step-by-step instructions for running TNSolver for the requested calculations (see page 2 of Fin Convection Experiment).

References


Last Modified by Bob Cochran, on November 19, 2017