%C Penang %T Heat simulation via Scilab programming %V 1605 %I American Institute of Physics Inc. %A M.K. Hasan %A J. Sulaiman %A S.A.A. Karim %P 113-118 %K Cultivation; Sustainable development, Behavior simulation; Computer codes; Heat equation; Heat simulation; Numerical experiments; Open sources; Visual outputs, Open source software %X This paper discussed the used of an open source sofware called Scilab to develop a heat simulator. In this paper, heat equation was used to simulate heat behavior in an object. The simulator was developed using finite difference method. Numerical experiment output show that Scilab can produce a good heat behavior simulation with marvellous visual output with only developing simple computer code. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC. %D 2014 %R 10.1063/1.4887574 %O cited By 0; Conference of 21st National Symposium on Mathematical Sciences: Germination of Mathematical Sciences Education and Research Towards Global Sustainability, SKSM 21 ; Conference Date: 6 November 2013 Through 8 November 2013; Conference Code:106463 %L scholars5122 %J AIP Conference Proceedings