Numerical Heat Equation: Cooking a Turkey in Python | Python Metaphysics #9 

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Do it!!!

@@MrPSolver Oh god YOU'RE MY HERO

Thank you :) . I'll be staying updated with your statistical mechanics videos!

BSc in physics. Currently doing master's degree. Video on that soon

You would use the thermal diffusivity of air and update the temperature for all grid cells in the for loop. Initialization would still be the same since you start with a heated oven.

While it's true that turkeys are 3D and exposed to more heat, they also have more volume they heat up. Think about arclength->surface area: (2D case) vs surface area-> volume (3D case). The reason why the turkey heats up faster in 3D is likely because it has a higher surface area to volume ratio (in 2D you can only capture the cross section that maximizes the cross sectional area).

I was thinking about possibly doing a 3D simulation at some point in the future, but the most difficult part would be obtaining the 3D turkey array. If I had that, then it would be a relatively simple modification to the python code.

@@MrPSolver look for DICOM files of CT scans of turkeys. You can probably extract the matrix using pydicom or something.

@@MrPSolver I can get you that 3d turkey array, I wrote you some instructions but I think the comment got auto removed because I had several external links in it... I'll DM you, I want to see the 3d turkey video! Your videos are great so far, very helpful.

@@MrPSolver Okay so it seems you can't DM someone on youtube? Bah. Okay so google this: cooked-turkey-v1--511939 You should find a free 3d turkey. its a .obj file which is a super simple format, it contains lists of vertices and normals, I'm sure you could get the boolean array you want from that yourself with a lot of dot products etc. Or you can use an online converter (easy to find on google) to make that into an stl and then use code someone else has stuck on github - search for marmakoide / inside-3d-mesh

Ok, I got it. They are the same in value so no need to differentiate deltax from deltay, let them be the same