Heat Transfer

"[C]onduction heat transfer is the transfer of energy caused by physical interaction among molecular, atomic, and subatomic particles in a substance at different temperatures (level[s] of kinetic energy)." Steady-state conduction clearly implies that a fixed amount of energy (heat) is being transferred (or conducted) in each unit of time over a continuing period.

General Conductive Energy Equation. Temperature is a property of a substance at any time, an "index of kinetic energy" of its building blocks. Energy is conducted through a substance according to, and at a rate defined by: qx = -kAx dT/dx in which qx is the heat transfer gradient or rate (e.g., watts, or Joules/s), k is a property of the material known as the thermal conductivity (e.g., watts/m-(C), Ax is the cross-sectional area of the substance through which heat is being transferred (normal to the x-direction), T is the temperature, and x is the linear length of the material--such as the thickness of a radiator wall; this expression is known as the Fourier law of conductivity.

Holman has demonstrated, pictorially and algebraically, that the energy flow per unit volume (i.e., Adx) through an elemental slice of a heated wall or plate can be expressed as

(/(x (k (T/(x) + qi = ?c (T/( t, (1)

in which qi is the energy generated wit

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e wall and the position of points where the temperature difference with the wall . . . is 99% of the temperature difference . . . between the undisturbed part of the fluid and the wall . . . "Experience shows that, except in the immediate vicinity of the leading edge, the momentum and thermal boundary layer thicknesses are very small compared to x." Reynolds Analogy. In the late 19th century, British engineering professor Osborne Reynolds [1842-1912], and the same Reynolds as in 'Reynolds Number' to distinguish laminar from turbulent flow, postulated that a relationship must exist between wall (sub-w) shear stress (t, N/m2) and heat flux (q'', W/m2). The Reynolds analogy according to Bejan is: U / [c(TF - Ts)] = - tw / q''w (13) in which U is the bulk velocity of the fluid (m/s), and c is the specific heat at constant pressure (J/kg-K). This development is based on a number of simplifying assumptions, principally that eddy diffusivity is equal to eddy thermal diffusivity, and that the momentum diffusivity coefficient (?M) is equal to the turbulent exchange coefficient (?H) (i.e., that the Prandtl Number = 1). Wolf has stated that the Reynolds analogy basically is the assumption that ?M = ?H. Philip Colburn'
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Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)

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