ThermaLab

ThermaLab is a virtual heat-transfer lab for exploring conduction, convection, and radiation interactively. It lets you adjust values, see formulas with substituted data, scientific charts, animated SVG diagrams, practice history, and result export.

I designed and built the lab as an educational tool: I organized the physical phenomena into manipulable experiences and connected each control to formulas, visualizations, and readable results.

The priority was to make the reasoning visible, not only to deliver a number. Each simulation therefore shows the values substituted into the formula, the charted behavior, and an animated representation of the phenomenon.

• Conduction: a simple wall, stacked layers, and how much each material slows heat.
• Convection: exchange between a plate and a fluid, natural and forced.
• Radiation: black body, real surfaces, and emissivity.
• Catalog of materials, fluids, and surfaces with real physical properties.
• Charts with Recharts and animations with Framer Motion.

ThermaLab became a working open application that brings conduction, convection, and radiation into one lab. The code is published and the demo can be tried in the browser.

• React 18 + Vite 8 + TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• recharts, framer-motion, lucide-react

• Repository: github.com/grismaldo/thermalab
• Demo: thermalab.vercel.app