Just as Fourier's law and the heat balance can be employed to characterize temperature distribution, analogous relationships are available to model field problems in other areas of engineering. For example, electrical engineers use a similar approach when modeling electrostatic fields. Under a number of simplifying assumptions, an analog of Fourier's law can be represented in one-dimensional form as
whereD is called the electric flux density
where
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- Algebra & Trigonometry with Analytic GeometryAlgebraISBN:9781133382119Author:SwokowskiPublisher:Cengage