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Heat Transfer Analysis and Calculations

The document outlines a series of engineering problems related to heat transfer, including calculations for boundary layer thickness, heat transfer coefficients, and convection heat rates for various scenarios involving plates, fire-screens, containers, and spheres. It provides specific numerical answers for each problem, such as boundary layer characteristics at a vertical plate, convection heat rates from a fireplace, and temperature variations during the cooling of a sphere. Additionally, it includes calculations for heat flux and temperature at the melting point of a platinum wire.

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Heat Transfer Analysis and Calculations

The document outlines a series of engineering problems related to heat transfer, including calculations for boundary layer thickness, heat transfer coefficients, and convection heat rates for various scenarios involving plates, fire-screens, containers, and spheres. It provides specific numerical answers for each problem, such as boundary layer characteristics at a vertical plate, convection heat rates from a fireplace, and temperature variations during the cooling of a sphere. Additionally, it includes calculations for heat flux and temperature at the melting point of a platinum wire.

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ASSIGNMENT 7

1) Consider a large vertical plate with a uniform surface temperature of 130◦C suspended in quiescent
air at 25◦C and atmospheric pressure.
(a) Estimate the boundary layer thickness at a location 0.25 m measured from the lower edge.
(b) What is the maximum velocity in the boundary layer at this location and at what position in the
boundary layer does the maximum occur?
(c) Using the similarity solution result, determine the heat transfer coefficient 0.25 m from the lower
edge.
(d) At what location on the plate measured from the lower edge will the boundary layer become
turbulent?

2) A glass-door fire-screen, used to reduce exfiltration of room air through a chimney, has a height of
0.71 m and a width of 1.02 m and reaches a temperature of 505 K. If the room temperature is 296 K,
estimate the convection heat rate from the fireplace to the room.

3) A thin-walled container with a hot process fluid at 50◦C is placed in a quiescent, cold water bath at
10◦C. Heat transfer at the inner and outer surfaces of the container may be approximated by free
convection from a vertical plate. Determine the overall heat transfer coefficient between the hot
process fluid and the cold water bath. Assume the properties of the hot process fluid are those of
water.

4) A nickel coated heater element with a thickness of 15mm and a thermal conductivity of 50W/m.K
is exposed to saturated water at atmospheric pressure. A thermocouple is attached to the back
surface, which is well insulated. Measurements at a particular operating condition yield an electrical
power dissipation In the heater element of 6.95x107 W/m3 and a temperature To=266.4oC

a) Calculate the surface temperature To and the heat flux at the exposed surface.
b) Using the surface heat flux determined in part (a) estimate the surface temperature by
applying an appropriate boiling correlation.
Useful data for Q.4

5) A small copper sphere, initially at a uniform, elevated temperature T(0) = Ti , suddenly


immersed in a large fluid bath maintained at Tsat . The initial temperature of the sphere exceeds
the Leidenfrost point corresponding to the temperature TD of the figure below

a) Sketch the variation of the average sphere temperature with time during the quenching
process. Indicate on this sketch the temperatures Ti, TD and Tsat, as well as the different
regimes of film, transition and nucleate boiling and single phase convection. Identify key
features of the temperature history.
b) At what time do you expect in this cooling process the surface temperature of the sphere to
deviate most from its center temperature? Explain.

6) Consider a horizontal D=1mm diamter platinum wire suspended in saturated water at


atmospheric presssure. The wire is heated by an electrical current. Determine the heat flux from the
wire at an instant when the surface of the wire reaches its melting point. Determint the
corresponding centerline temperature of the wire. Due to oxidation at very high temperature, wire
emissivite is 0.8 when it burns out.
ANSWERS/HINTS

1. a) y=17.5mm b)u=0.47m/s, c) h=4.3W/m2K d) 0.6m

2. q=1060W

3. h=618W/m2K

4. a) 110oC ; 1.043 x 106 W/m2 b) 109.1oC

6. 1.34W/m2 ; 2048K

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