ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the important information and techniques, examines some possibilities for further work, and reviews the strategies for appropriate use of the computer program. For the class of physical problems considered, the numerical method can handle a wide variety of problems. For heat conduction, the problem may be steady or unsteady, the thermal conductivity may be nonuniform and temperature dependent, the heat generation may have any distribution and may be a function of the temperature, and the problem may be governed by a variety of linear or nonlinear boundary conditions. The chapter shows that the provision of a problem-dependent subroutine gives virtually unlimited flexibility to the user in specifying the details of the problem and in designing the output. Apart from some complications of lengths, areas, and volumes, the general framework of CONDUCT will remain the same. The modified program will be able to handle arbitrary shapes with greater elegance and accuracy.
