Heat simulation of a single heatfin CPU radiator

University assigment in first year of a master's degree in applied mathematics.
You can find a full report in /doc.

Compilation

Place yourself in the root of the Project.
Move or make a fresh build directory and move into it:

mkdir build
cd build

Compile an executable :

cmake --preset release ..
make

Usage

Run a simulation

./run <config_file>

Example:

./run ../simul.cfg

Note: writing into the files can take some times (with the current parameters there is around 240'000 * 600 = 144 millions of small lines to write).

You can modify or make your own configuration files as long as it's exactly in the same format.

Visualization

For 1d solution you can chose in the main.cpp if you want to see the plots or not.
Additionnaly if you want to see more plots and testings you can use :

make test

Solutions are saved in data.
3d solutions can be visualized in a visualization software like Paraview.
Note: to do the plots you will need the pandas library which can be installed, using pip

pip install pandas

or using conda/mamba

conda install pandas

mamba install -c conda-forge pandas

Note: if the data directory gets too big you can delete it, the saves functions knows how to create one without crashing.