Electrothermal Simulation Using Finite Difference

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Project Goal

Electrothermal simulation of barium titanate based PTCR thermistor is simulation study using Finite Difference. The goal of this study was to understand the electrothermal behavior of BaTiO3 thermistors under applied voltage.

Project Details

  • Electrothermal simulation of barium titanate based PTCR thermistor was a side project during my M.S. at Sharif University of Technology. Two software were developed for this study. I) Finite Difference simulator software (C++) which solves the problem for given material properties, and boundary conditions. II) Data plotter (OpenGL) which plots the results from the solver software and visualize the data in 3D. Following journal paper presents the study in depth.
  • Language used: Visual C++ and OpenGL 1.2
  • Source code is available upon request.