Conduction with Heat Generation

This section covers how to analyze conduction problems that include a heat generating solid. It is coved in Section 3.5 of the textbook.

Equation 3.44:

Yields the general solution (Equation 3.45):

Equation 3.46:

Where is half the width of the heat-generation solid, is the surface temperature on the hotter side of the heat generated solid, is the lower temperature, and is the thermal conductivity coefficient.

You cannot use thermal circuit resistance to find a temperature within a heat generating solid.