To solve the 2D heat equation in Matlab, we can use the built-in pdepe
function which solves partial differential equations using the method of lines. Here is a code example that solves the 2D heat equation:
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In this example, we define the domain and the initial conditions, and then specify the diffusion coefficient D
and the boundary conditions using the createMesh2D
function. The pdepe
function then solves the PDE over the time vector tspan
, and we extract the solution vector u
from the solution matrix sol
.
Note that we also need to define three additional functions pdex4pde
, pdex4ic
, and pdex4bc
which describe the PDE, the initial conditions, and the boundary conditions, respectively. Here are the definitions of these functions:
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These functions are straightforward to define and simply translate the PDE, initial conditions, and boundary conditions into the correct form for use with pdepe
.
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