Heat Flow explanation

Hi Kevin,

excuse me for asking this, but I do not understand a part of the task here. In each simulation step we have to calculate the heat exchange between each cube and its orthogonal neighbors simultaneously. Let's take an inner cube with 4 orthogonal neighbors. It involves 4 calculations simultaneously. If I understand correctly that means that the 4 neighbors's temperature is calculated once (regarding this step and this certain inner cube) but what the inner cube's temperature will be at the end of the simulation step? Because it will can have up to 4 values from calculating the heat exchange between each of its neighbors... Or the inner cube's temperature should be updated in a certain order of its neighbors? I'm quite sure that I am the one who misunderstand something.

Thanks in advance.

Hm, give me some time please, before you answer. After reading the problem several times (especially the first sections), I think it is starting settled for me. (but not sure, yet :) ). I keep on trying.

A tiny bug (typo I think): Column and row indices are used everywhere in the description as -> column index THEN row index (0-based) In the first and second examples we have first line starting with "2 1 ..." -> grid has 2 columns and 1 row based on the description. But in the second lines (the cells with initial temperature T1) there is "0 1" -> col=0, row=1 but the grid has only one row (with index=0).

Could you please check this problem? I think I have the solution and i want to see the confirmation! :D

Hi Kevin,

oh, no problem aobut the delay :) Yes, it is winter know, I have also had several hours spending with physical training because of the snow :) Fortunately no snow is expected in the upcoming days. Thank you for the fixing!