TEXT(decay of temp. profile in metal slab DISPLAY In-Form is used to set an initial sinusoidal temperature in an insulated slab of aluminium. The temperature distribution flattens with time, retaining however its sinusoidal shape, as is made evident by the line-printer plots elicited by PATCH(PLOT,PROFIL,,,,, Setting IDISPA=20 causes a parphi file to be created, with 20 time intervals, enabling the temperature variation to be viewed via PHOTON. ENDDIS PHOTON USE p parphi 500 1 1 msg temperature contours; vertical direction is slab thickness msg horizontal direction is time msg type e to end WinPHOTON session con tem1 y 1 fi;0.001 ENDUSE STEADY=F ! transient case GRDPWR(T,100,1000.0,1.0) ! 1000 seconds divided into 100 steps GRDPWR(X,10,1.0,1.0) ! 1 m thick, divided into 10 intervals SOLVE(TEM1) ! solve for temperature STORE(PRPS) ! use PRPS to indicate material FIINIT(PRPS)= 100. ! set material value 100 (aluminium) ! sinusoidal temperature distribution set by In-Form (initial of TEM1 is SIN(XG*3.14159)) NTPRIN=10 ! print at every 10th time step NXPRIN=1 ! print at each cell location LSWEEP=5 ! few sweeps are needed for accuracy PATCH(PLOT,PROFIL,1,NX,1,1,1,1,1,LSTEP) ! use line-printer plot COVAL(PLOT,TEM1,0,0) ! for easy display of profile shape IDISPA=20 ! dump to parphi every 20th step for ! display via PHOTON