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    This document outlines an assignment for a numerical methods course involving thermal engineering. It contains 3 hand calculation questions and 2 programming questions. The hand calculation questions involve deriving finite difference formulas for the first and second derivatives on uniform and non-uniform grids. The programming questions involve implementing and comparing first, second, and fourth order finite difference schemes for the first derivative, and implementing central differencing on uniform and non-uniform grids. The assignment is due on October 13th.

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    ME 5107: Numerical methods in Thermal Engineering Jul–Nov 2023

    Assignment 5
    Submission date: 13th October 2023

    Hand calculations
    1. (20 points) Consider a non-uniform grid with the left and right-hand side grid sizes of point xi are hl and
    hr respectively and the grid size ratio is a constant (hr /hl = r). Denoting the function values at the grid
    points xi , (xi − hl ), (xi + hr ) as u(xi ), u(xi − hl ) and u(xi + hr ) respectively. Derive second-order accurate
    central-difference formulae for the first derivative at the grid point xi . Express your answer in terms of
    u(xi ), u(xi − hl ), u(xi + hr ), r and hl (20 points).

    2. (10 points) Derive a fourth-order accurate forward-difference formula for evaluating the second derivative
    on a uniform grid of size ∆x (10 points).
    3. (10 points) A general Padé type boundary scheme for the first derivative is given by,
    ′ ′ 1
    f0 + αf1 = (af0 + bf1 + cf2 + d f3 ) .
    h
    Show that requiring this scheme to be at least third-order accurate would constrain the coefficients to
    11 + 2α 6−α 2α − 3 2−α
    a=− ,b = ,c = ,d = . Which value of α would you choose and why?
    6 2 2 6

    Programming
    1. (40 points) Consider the following equation that arises in the solution of transient heat conduction in a
    plane wall

    u(x) = Bi − x tan(x)

    where Bi is the Biot number in the present case taken to be 7 and x = [−1, 1]. Write a program to compute
    the first derivative using first, second and fourth-order accurate forward-difference formulae. Using grid
    sizes of ∆x = 0.1, 0.01, 0.001 plot the ∞-norm of the truncation-error versus the grid sizes for all the three
    schemes on a log-log plot. Provide the values of the slopes of these lines and compare them with the
    theoretical prediction.
    2. (20 points) Non-uniform mesh:
    Consider the function f (x) = 1 − x8 and a grid defined as follows in x-space (non-uniform grid) and
    ξ-space (uniform grid) with N = 32:

    j = 0, 1, 2, . . . , N (1)
    ξj = πj/N (2)
    xj = cos(ξj ) (3)

    (i) Compute and plot the first derivative of f at all xj , except j = 0 (left boundary) and j = N (right
    boundary) points, with
    ′ fj+1 − fj−1
    (a) The central difference formula fj =
    xj+1 − xj−1
    (b) The coordinate transformation method using grid in ξ-space. Use second order central difference
    df
    formula to obtain .
    dξ
    (ii) Compare results in (a) and (b) with the exact derivative at those xj locations.

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