SQLITE_NOTICE(283): recovered 5 frames from WAL file /data/mtt.fossil-wal
File mttroot/mtt/lib/examples/Simulation/BigHeatedRod/HeatedRod_desc.tex artifact ca122af254 part of check-in 302ba43d9c
% Verbal description for system HeatedRod (HeatedRod_desc.tex) % Generated by MTT on Thu Sep 4 18:05:09 BST 1997. % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % %% Version control history % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % %% $Id$ % %% $Log$ % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The acausal bond graph of system \textbf{HeatedRod} is displayed in Figure \Ref{HeatedRod_abg} and its label file is listed in Section \Ref{sec:HeatedRod_lbl}. The subsystems are listed in Section \Ref{sec:HeatedRod_sub}. System \textbf{HeatedRod} is a model of a rod of copper with an electric current passing through it which warms it up. The two ends of the rod are fixed at ambient temperature; this is where all the heat loss occurs. This system introduces the idea of the {\bf ES} component which transforms a relative-temperature/enthalpy pseudo bond (at the [e] port) into an absolute-temperature/enntropy energy bond (at the [s] port) and vice versa. The model is similar to that described in chapter 8 of Cellier's book. However, instead of representing the thermal resistance by {\bf RS} components and reinserting the entropy flow, the {\bf RT} component uses two {\bf ES} components to convert from true to pseudo bonds and back again. Similary, the thermal capacity is modelled by the {\bf CT} component. The rod parameters are given in the numpar file and the input current in the input file.