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    1. This document provides instructions for a computer programming project assignment with two problems to be completed in groups of 10-15 students. 2. Problem 1 involves developing a program to model the steady state temperature distribution in a thin metal plate surrounded by heat sources using a two-dimensional grid. 3. Problem 2 requires demonstrating skills learned during the course by writing a fully-fledged C++ program from scratch on any topic, such as an in-memory student database. The program must be large, have a text interface, and include documentation.

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    MAKERERE UNIVERSITY

    COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, DESIGN, ART AND TECHNOLOGY


    DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    MEC2203: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Project Assignment 2

    Project Instructions:
    1. This project contains two problems and is to be done in groups of 10-15 students
    and carries 50 points.
    2. You are required to submit a well written report including all the steps used in
    handling the problems, source code and executable files of the project.
    3. This project is due on Monday 5th of June 2023 at midday.
    4. Submit the files as C++ source code and the executables through MUELE.
    5. The documents should be zipped and the file named as
    project2_group_names.zip.
    6. One member should submit on behalf of each group.

    Problem 1: Steady State Temperature in a Thin Metal Plate (20 points)


    Imagine a thin metal plate being surrounded by a number of heat sources along each
    edge, with the edges held at different temperatures. After a short time, the
    temperature at each location on the plate will settle into a steady state. This can be
    modelled by dividing the plate into a discrete grid of cells and simulating the change
    in temperature of each cell over time as below:

    100 100 100 100 100

    90 T(1,1) T(1,2) T(1,3) 95

    90 T(2,1) T(2,2) T(2,3) 95

    90 T(3,1) T(3,2) T(3,3) 95

    80 80 80 80 95

    At each time step, the temperature in each interior cell (i,j) will be the average of four
    of its surrounding neighbours: T(i,j) = (T(i-1,j) + T(i+1,j) + T(i,j-1) + T(i,j+1))/4   

    a) Part 1

    Develop a program to determine the steady state temperature distribution in the


    plate by representing the plate as a two-dimensional array with NROWS rows and
    NCOLS columns. NROWS and NCOLS should be declared as global constants
    (suggestion: use 20 for both values).

    Your program should do the following:


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     Declare 2 separate two-dimensional arrays named temp and old. Array old will
    be used to maintain the current values of the grid temperatures and array
    temp will be used to compute the new values obtained at each successive
    time step using the equation above.
     Prompt the user and enter temperature values for the top, bottom, left, right
    sides. Also prompt and enter an initial temperature T(i,j) for the interior cells. (For
    this lab, you may initialize all the interior cells to a single, user-input
    temperature.)
     Initialize temp using these values and display the initial contents of the temp
    array on the console.
     Obtain a convergence criterion from the user (say, 0.001)
     Use a convergence loop to continue updating the temp array until the
    temperature in every cell converges using the following method:
    1. Set a boolean variable named steady to true
    2. Copy temp to old
    3. Loop over all the interior cells (but not the edge cells!)
    temp[i][j] = 0.25*(old[i][j-1] + . . .)
    if |temp[i][j] – old[i][j]| > convergence_criterion,
    then set steady to false

    Repeat this 3-step process again and again until all the cells simultaneously satisfy the
    convergence criterion.

    b) Part 2
    Modify your program so that the final temperature data can be written to a file
    named temp.dat instead of (or in addition to) the terminal screen.

    Problem 2: (30 Points)


    In this problem, you are required to demonstrate all that you have learned during this
    course. It should be a fully-fledged C++ program, written entirely from scratch by you,
    satisfying the requirements below. You are free to work on anything specific – you can
    also come up with any idea that you want to work on. A possible idea could be:

    An in-memory database (not required to save data to files) in which the user can
    enter/modify/view records. For instance, you might make:
     A database of Mechanical Engineering Students (Year 1 to 4) at CEDAT, the
    classes they take, etc., allowing adding, removing students, etc.

    Further Requirements
     Your project should be large enough to take about 10-20 hours of coding.
     You may not use external libraries (e.g. for graphical interfaces) but stick to
    a text interface.
     It is very important that you write easily readable, well designed code.
     Include a README file, with some documentation and instructions on how
    to use your program. Also, this README file should include the problems you
    had with your project, what challenges, and what you have done
    differently if you could do it again.

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