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Heat Conduction for Engineering Students

This document summarizes key concepts from Lecture 3 on steady heat conduction, including: 1. Thermal resistance networks can be used to model heat transfer through multi-layer walls with convection on both sides. 2. Thermal contact resistance models the resistance to heat transfer at interfaces between surfaces. 3. The fin equation models heat transfer along a fin and can be used to derive expressions for the temperature distribution along infinitely long fins. 4. Fin efficiency compares the actual heat transfer of a fin to the maximum possible heat transfer. Fin effectiveness compares the heat transfer of a finned surface to a non-finned surface.

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Heat Conduction for Engineering Students

This document summarizes key concepts from Lecture 3 on steady heat conduction, including: 1. Thermal resistance networks can be used to model heat transfer through multi-layer walls with convection on both sides. 2. Thermal contact resistance models the resistance to heat transfer at interfaces between surfaces. 3. The fin equation models heat transfer along a fin and can be used to derive expressions for the temperature distribution along infinitely long fins. 4. Fin efficiency compares the actual heat transfer of a fin to the maximum possible heat transfer. Fin effectiveness compares the heat transfer of a finned surface to a non-finned surface.

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LECTURE 3: Steady Heat Conduction

Syllabus : Thermal Resistance Concept, Thermal Contact Resistance, Fin Equation, Fin
Efficiency, Fin Effectiveness

- Thermal Resistance Concept

The thermal resistance network for heat transfer through
a two-layer plane wall subjected to convection on both
sides can be expressed as



total
R
T T
Q
2 1

=

(1)


A h A k
L
A k
L
A h
R R R R R
conv wall wall conv tot
2 2
2
1
1
1
2 , 2 , 1 , 1 ,
1 1
+ + + =
= + + + =
(2)

The various examples of thermal resistance network arrangements are given at pp. 136-145 of the
textbook.

- Thermal Contact Resistance

An interface between surfaces often offers some
resistance to heat transfer R
c
. Commonly in the analysis
of heat transfer through multilayer walls a perfect and
actual contacts are considered.







- Fin Equation


( )


|
.
|

\
|
T T p h
dx
dT
kA
dx
d
c
(3)
In the special case of A
c
= constant the Eqn.(3) reduces to

( ) 0
2
2
=

T T
kA
p h
dx
T d
c
or 0
2
2
2
= u
u
m
dx
d
(4)
where
c
A k
p h
m =
2
and

= T T u

At the fin tip we have several possible types of boundary conditions
which would yield a different distribution of temperature along the
fin.

Infinitely long fin (

=T T
fin tip
) yields

| |
c
mx
b
kA hp x e
T T
T x T
= =

exp
) (
(5)






- Fin Efficiency


max , fin
fin
fin
Q
Q

= q (6)






















Efficiency of straight fins of rectangular, triangular, and parabolic profiles









- Fin Effectiveness

The performance of the fins is judged on the basis of the enhancement
in heat transfer relative to the no-fin case. The performance of fins is
expressed in terms of the fin effectiveness
fin
defined as


b
b
A area of surface the from rate fer Heat trans
A area base the of fin the from rate fer Heat trans
= =
fin no
fin
fin
Q
Q

c

The effectiveness of a long fin of uniform cross section:


c fin no
fin
fin long
hA
p k
Q
Q
= =

c (7)




References:

1. Y. A. engel, A. J. Ghajar . Heat and Mass Transfer. Fundamentals and Applications. 4
th
Ed.,
McGraw-Hill.

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