Material Class Reference

The Material class is a simple container class that defines the conductivity, density and heat capacity of a material. More...

#include <material.hpp>

Inheritance diagram for Material:

Public Member Functions
constexpr	Material (const double conductivity, const double density, const double heatCapacity)
	Basic constructor that requires all material properties. More...
double	conductivity () const
	Conductivity getter.
double	density () const
	Density getter.
double	heatCapacity () const
	Heat capacity getter.

Static Public Attributes
static const Material	concrete = Material( 2.9, 3400, 650)
	Predefined concrete.
static const Material	steel = Material(50, 7800, 590)
	Predefined steel.
static const Material	coating = Material( 0.74, 1300, 1900)
	Predefined pipe coating.
static const Material	soil = Material( 2, 2000, 1000)
	Predefined soil.
static const Material	seawater = Material( 0.571, 1020, 4187)
	Predefined seawater.
static const Material	air = Material( 0.0257, 1.225, 1012)
	Predefined air.

Protected Attributes
double	m_conductivity
	Thermal conductivity [W/(m K)].
double	m_density
	Density [kg/m3].
double	m_heatCapacity
	Heat capacity at constant pressure ( \(c_p\)) [J/(kg K)].

Detailed Description

The Material class is a simple container class that defines the conductivity, density and heat capacity of a material.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Material()

constexpr Material::Material ( const double  conductivity, const double  density, const double  heatCapacity  )

inlineconstexpr

Basic constructor that requires all material properties.

Parameters

conductivity	Thermal conductivity [W/(m K)]
density	Density [kg/m3]
heatCapacity	Heat capacity at constant pressure ( \(c_p\)) [J/(kg K)]

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• D:/Code/transient-pipeline-flow-gh-pages/src/heattransfer/material.hpp