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Trouble with iterative function

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  • Subject: [mg39937] Trouble with iterative function
  • From: "Miguel Cruz" <pyro_gest at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 02:31:25 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Good day everyone,

I have problem trying to implement an iterative function that attempts 
to estimate the temperature of a wood particle subjected to variable air 
temperature (air temperature is function of time, e.g. 
Tair[t_]=600+t*5).
The function is the following (hc is the heat transfer coeficient):
Fignition[t_, hc_] :=
  Block[{ Tfuel = Tini, Tini = 300, Fcp =
      2100, Fd = 0.005, Fl = 0.1, ?f = 520,
      FMC = 0.7, Wcp = 2417, Whv = 2257000},
    {While[Tfuel < 373, Print[Tfuel]; Save["test01.dat", Tfuel];{S = 
?f*Fv[
      Fd, Fl]*(Fcp + (Wcp*FMC));
             Q = hc*Fa[Fd, Fl]*(Tair[t] - Tfuel);
             Xtp = Tfuel + (Q/S);
             Tfuel = Xtp}]}
      {While[Tfuel > 373, Print[Tfuel]; Save["test01.dat", Tfuel]; {
          S = ?f*Fv[Fd, Fl]*(Fcp);
             Q = hc*Fa[Fd, Fl]*(Tair[t] - Tfuel);
             Xtp = Tfuel + (Q/S);
             Tfuel = Xtp}; If[Tfuel > 600, Break[]]
          ]
        }
    ]

My problem is that I want the Fignition[t_, hc_]  function to be 
computed for each time step by reading the Tair at that time step. the 
time step should be the iterator. Currently the function does its thing 
but uses a fixed Tair.
Hope I was clear. Thanks
Miguel


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