Abstract:
To overcome the limited availability and scale in the experiment of “Thermoelectric Analogy” posed by circuit consumables, resulting in poor flexibility in expanding the experimental content, based on the principle of thermoelectric analogy, an equivalent circuit was established for two-dimensional steady heat conduction objects that incorporate isothermal, convection, adiabatic, and interface continuous boundary conditions, and a virtual simulation teaching experiment of “Thermoelectric Analogy” was developed. The experiment realized the simulation of isothermal and convective boundary of two-dimensional corner problem in the experimental teaching course of our academy, which was also further augmented with the node thermal equilibrium equation formulating, data export and other teaching auxiliary function that helps deepen students’ understanding of the experimental principles. The thermal equilibrium deviation calculated by the experiment was validated by the simulation results of Fluent, which revealed that the software simulation error was negligible. The newly developed experiment has completed the trial operation among 2 classes at our academy and is expected to be officially applied in the Experiments of Heat Transfer course throughout the school.