5th
I love Course 10, part 19.
My 10.302 problem set is a bitch. I’ve been working on it since Tuesday, but it involves a lot of MatLab, which takes me some time. But the problems are so interesting! Right now I’m working on a problem that involves heating up a batch of a pharmaceutical by running hot fluid through a pipe and then having the heat transfer from the pipe (which is submerged in the batch) to the pharmaceutical. I have to calculate the temperature of the batch as a function of time, as well as the temperature of the fluid coming out of the pipe once it’s heated the batch. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it?
Except that doing transient heat transfer involves a lot of differential equations and writing shit in MatLab and plotting stuff. And I’m getting that both my batch and my fluid are both heating up, which I can’t wrap my mind around. I’m trying to figure out if I made any mistakes.
Still, I’m not going to lie: While this is some tedious shit, it’s exciting and interesting and makes me feel like a real engineer!
