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An uninsulated steam pipe is used to transport high-temperature steam from one building to another. The pipe is of 0.5-m diameter, has a surface temperature
An opaque, horizontal plate has a thickness of L = 21 mm and thermal conductivity k = 25 W/m · K. Water flows adjacent to the bottom of the plate
An oil pre-heater consists of a ingle tube of 10 mm diameter and 5m length, with its surface maintained at 175°C by swirling combustion gases.
Annular aluminum fins of rectangular profile are attached to a circular tube having an outside diameter of 50 mm and an outer surface temperature of 200°C.
Approximate the human form as an unclothed vertical cylinder of O.3-m diameter and 1.75-m length with a surface temperature of 30°C.
As a means of preventing ice formation on the wings of a small, private aircraft, it is proposed that electric resistance heating elements be installed
Consider limitations for which the array has N = 11 fins, in which case values of the fin thickness t = 0.182 mm and pitch S = 1.982 mm are obtained
An igloo is built in the shape of a hemisphere, with an inner radius of 1.8 m and walls of compacted snow that are 0.5 m thick
An experiment is conducted to determine the average mass transfer convection coefficient of a small droplet using a heater controlled to operate at a constant
An experiment is designed to measure the partition coefficient, K, associated with the transfer of a pharmaceutical product through a polymer material.
An experimental nuclear core simulation apparatus consists of a long thin-walled metallic tube of diameter D and length L
An experimental arrangement for measuring the thermal conductivity of solid materials involves the use of two long rods that are equivalent in every respect
An engine oil cooler consists of a bundle of 25 smooth tubes, each of length L = 2.5 m and diameter D = 10 mm.
An interior wall of a cold furnace, initially at 0°C, is suddenly exposed to a radiant flux of 15 kW/m2 when the furnace is brought on line
An insurance company has hired you as a consultant to improve their understanding of burn injuries.
An egg, which for the purposes of this problem can be assumed to be a 5-cm-diameter sphere having the thermal properties of water
An aluminum cooling fin for a heat exchanger is situated parallel to an atmospheric pressure air stream. The fin is 0.075 m high, 0.005 m thick, and 0.45 m
An air heater for an industrial application consists of an insulated, concentric tube annulus, for which air flows through a thin-walled inner tube
An air heater may be fabricated by coiling Nichrome wire and passing air in cross flow over the wire. Consider a heater fabricated from wire of diameter
An electrical cable, experiencing a uniform volumetric generation q, is half buried in an insulating material while the upper surface is exposed to a convection
An array of electronic chips is mounted within a sealed rectangular enclosure, and cooling is implemented by attaching an aluminum heat sink (k = 180 W/m · K).
An air-cooled steam condenser is operated with air in cross flow over a square, in-line array of 400 tubes (NL = NT = 20), with an outside tube diameter
An aluminum alloy (2024) plate, heated to a uniform temperature of 227°C, is al10wed to cool while vertically suspended in a room
An annular aluminum fin of rectangular profile is attached to a circular tube having an outside diameter of 25 mm and a surface temperature of 250°C.
An electrical heater in the form of a horizontal disk of 400-mm diameter is used to heat the bottom of a tank filled with engine oil at a temperature of 5°C.