Chapter 3: Q19E (page 131)
Building Temperature.In Section 3.3 we modeled the temperature inside a building by the initial value problem (13)\(\frac{{{\bf{dT}}}}{{{\bf{dt}}}}{\bf{ = K}}\,\,\left[ {{\bf{M}}\,{\bf{(t) - T}}\,{\bf{(t)}}} \right]{\bf{ + H}}\,{\bf{(t) + U}}\,{\bf{(t),}}\,\,{\bf{T}}\,{\bf{(}}{{\bf{t}}_{\bf{o}}}{\bf{) = }}{{\bf{T}}_{\bf{o}}}\) , where M is the temperature outside the building, T is the temperature inside the building, H is the additional heating rate, U is the furnace heating or air conditioner cooling rate, K is a positive constant, and \({{\bf{T}}_{\bf{o}}}\) is the initial temperature at time \({{\bf{t}}_{\bf{o}}}\) . In a typical model, \({{\bf{t}}_{\bf{o}}}{\bf{ = 0}}\) (midnight),\({{\bf{T}}_{\bf{o}}}{\bf{ = 6}}{{\bf{5}}^{\bf{o}}}\), \({\bf{H}}\left( {\bf{t}} \right){\bf{ = 0}}{\bf{.1}}\), \({\bf{U(t) = 1}}{\bf{.5}}\left[ {{\bf{70 - T(t)}}} \right]\)and \({\bf{M(t) = 75 - 20cos}}\frac{{{\bf{\pi t}}}}{{{\bf{12}}}}\) . The constant K is usually between\(\frac{{\bf{1}}}{{\bf{4}}}{\bf{and}}\frac{{\bf{1}}}{{\bf{2}}}\), depending on such things as insulation. To study the effect of insulating this building, consider the typical building described above and use the improved Euler’s method subroutine with\({\bf{h = }}\frac{{\bf{2}}}{{\bf{3}}}\) to approximate the solution to (13) on the interval \(0 \le {\bf{t}} \le 24\) (1 day) for \({\bf{k = 0}}{\bf{.2,}}\,{\bf{0}}{\bf{.4}}\), and 0.6.
Short Answer
The temperature at midnight when \({\bf{k = 0}}{\bf{.2}}\) is approx. \({\bf{68}}{\bf{.385}}\).
The temperature at midnight when \({\bf{k = }}\,{\bf{0}}{\bf{.4}}\) is approx. \({\bf{67}}{\bf{.050}}\).
The temperature at midnight when \({\bf{k = 0}}{\bf{.6}}\) is approx.\({\bf{65}}{\bf{.974}}\).
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