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The Concept of Extrusion

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The fundamental idea of extrusion is quite simple; a square extruded into a third dimension becomes a cube; a circle becomes a cylinder.  Given spherical layer surfaces, the circle can also become a sphere.

Note: It is important to consider carefully the characteristics of any given problem, to determine the orientation most amenable to extrusion.

What happens if we extrude our simple 2D heat flow problem into a third dimension?  Setting the extrusion distance to half the plate spacing, we get a cylinder imbedded in a brick, as we see in the following figure:

 

 

A cross-section at any value of Z returns the original 2D figure.

A cross-section cut at Y=0 shows the extruded structure:

 


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