Heat Transfer Project: Pan Design
This was a heat transfer project where we had to utilize a program called Comsol Multiphysics to model the conduction, convection, and radiation of a pan under a constant heat flux. My team and I designed the pan with three layers; the very bottom layer is copper which pulls heat from the burner at the center out to the sides because of its high thermal conductivity. The center layer is a firebrick type ceramic with a very low thermal conductivity. This was placed to prevent the center of the pan from getting hotter than the sides. The goal of the project was to design a pan to have the most uniform temperature distribution we could get. There were weight and cost limitations.
We were not required to utilize a CAD program, however I found it easy to model each layer in Solidworks matching the dimensions from Comsol and then using the mass finding function in Solidworks to provide us with the weight (and cool renders).
We were not required to utilize a CAD program, however I found it easy to model each layer in Solidworks matching the dimensions from Comsol and then using the mass finding function in Solidworks to provide us with the weight (and cool renders).