Well basically I have one main heat variable wich increases and decreases by its modifyers.
Now the interesting part for me is, that how would I transfer the heat dynamically to another variable?

For a good example, heat transfer from oil to water in cars. The oil Heats up and if the water is colder than the oil, it heats up to the same temperature, but it wont do this instantly. It takes some time to transfer heat from one fluid to another.

If possible Id like to ignore if/else sentences and do it all mathematically, this way it would stay dynamic.

So to start things of, obviously I need a heattransfer variable, so the higher this is the faster the transfer takes place. I'd like to keep this 1.0 at highest, where the heat transfer is almost instant., so a variable of 0.3 would give smoother transfer.
And I also need a cooling variable, so that the heat can be cooled down if its higher than the desired temperature. Same criteria for heating applys to cooling.

As I understand I have to take use of a formula like this:

// decrease
transfer -= (constant + transfer)*transferspeed*dT;
// increase
transfer += (constant - transfer)*transferspeed*dT;

right? But how could I write it as close to a single line code with cooling included ?

Edit:

Also how to make it so that the desired heat will also decrease, because its a heat transfer procedure. As a law of physics theres no such thing as a free lunch.

Thanks!

The real way is to use something like Fourier's law like in this article.

Though that might be overkill for your purposes.

Start by thinking about it as heat energy, not as temperature.

You can get temperature from the internal energy by having the mass and thermal heat capacity of the objects.

The difference in temperature drives a flow of heat energy between the objects.

A thermal resistance slows this flow.

It works like Ohms law. (E=IR)

But with thermal-ness it would be (T = QR)

where T is temperature delta, Q is heat flow, R is thermal resistance.

How you calculate R is the crux of how complicated your system is! For a simple "looks good enough" you can just base it on surface area of the objects in contact with a scaling factor.

For a more accurate effect, you'd have to deal with things like arriving at a convection coefficient which is brilliantly convoluted to calculate. For round objects there are some natural logs that show up in the calculation of R. There are Nussault numbers and Prandl numbers. You can go nuts here.

Your specific example of heat transfer from oil->water is an example of a heat exchanger.

If you can be more specific about what you need to accomplish, we can advise you better.

  // Each timestep

  transfer_heat = control_variable * timestep_length * (object_B.temp - object_A.temp);
  object_A.temp += transfer_heat / object_A.heat_capacity;
  object_B.temp -= transfer_heat / object_B.heat_capacity;

Depends on the type of heat transfer and how detailed you want. Are you trying to model conduction and convection or radiation as well? Conduction and convection are pretty simple, but radiation takes a bit of code. For a simple model with conduction and convection, the resistive model is a good one.