Consider a long bar of square cross section (0.8 m to the side) and of thermal conductivity 2 W/m · K. Three of these sides are maintained at a uniform temperature of 300°C. The fourth side is exposed to a fluid at 100°C for which the convection heat transfer coefficient is 10W/m2 · K.
(a) Using an appropriate numerical technique with a grid spacing of 0.2 m, determine the midpoint temperature and heat transfer rate between the bar and the fluid per unit length of the bar.
(b) Reducing the grid spacing by a factor of 2, determine the midpoint temperature and heat transfer rate. Plot the corresponding temperature distribution across the surface exposed to the fluid. Also, plot the 200 and 250°C isotherms.