THERMAL ENGINEERING / 10

Thermal Shift Control

Three stages. One careful heat budget.

Stage 1 heater power Stage 2 heater power Stage 3 heater power Insulation

Plan three heater stages of 20 simulated seconds. Match the temperature at all three checkpoints, and stay within the energy budget. Insulation slows cooling as well as heating losses. Playback runs at six times simulated speed. Reset and revise the plan.

Model, controls & source

Runs genuine scottfr/simulation AGPL-3.0-or-later stock/flow models with RK4 integration, one model per stage. dT/dt = 0.035·power − conductance·(T−20). Original thermal scheduling game; simplified lumped chamber, no real equipment design use. License · Editable engine source · Complete upstream source · Build instructions. Original game code distributed under AGPL-3.0-or-later; no warranty.

Locally bundled GPT-generated engineering artwork. All experiments run in your browser.