2013年美国数学建模A题一等奖论文.pdf

Team Control Number For office use only For office use only T1 ________________ 21566 F1 ________________ T2 ________________ F2 ________________ T3 ________________ F3 ________________ Problem Chosen T4 ________________ F4 ________________ A 2013 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) Summary Sheet (Attach a copy of this page to your solution paper.) Summary Brownies enjoys a great popularity in the United States for its tasty flavor. However, what has troubled housewives and restaurant cooks so many years is that when baking in a rectangular pan heat is concentrated in the four corners and the food gets overcooked at the corners; while baking in a round pan the heat is distributed evenly over the entire outer edge and the food is not overcooked there. Due to lacking efficiency of using the space in an oven, circular pans are not the best choice. We are tasked to solve this dilemma and put forward an optimized design for baking pans. To illustrate how heat is distributed in a specific baking pan, the law of Heat Conduction for a three-dimensional object is firstly deduced to construct our model for heat distribution across the outer edges of pans of different shapes - rectangular, circular and elliptical. Secondly, Finite Difference Method is introduced to solve the proposed model numerically