We deduce the temperature for the point of interest, A, by a simple proportionality: T point A = 2.1 5.6 40 − 0 = 15 ◦C The shape factor A heat conduction shape factor S may be defined fo
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• If you have doubts about whether any large, ill-shaped regions are
correct, fill them in with an extra isotherm and adiabatic line to
be sure that they resolve into appropriate squares (see the dashed
lines in Fig.5.21)
• Fill in the final grid, when you are sure of it, either in hard pencil or
pen, and erase any lingering background sketch lines
• Your flow channels need not come out even Notice that there is an
extra 1/7 of a channel in Fig.5.21 This is simply counted as 1/7 of
a square in eqn (5.65)
• Never allow isotherms or adiabatic lines to intersect themselves.
When the sketch is complete, we can return to eqn (5.65) to compute
the heat flux In this case
Q = N
I k ∆T = 2(6.14)
4 k ∆T = 3.07 k∆T
When the authors of [5.3] did this problem, they obtained N/I = 3.00—a
value only 2% below ours This kind of agreement is typical when flux
plotting is done with care
Figure 5.22 A flux plot with no axis of symmetry to guide
construction
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One must be careful not to grasp at a false axis of symmetry Figure5.22shows a shape similar to the one that we just treated, but with un-
equal legs In this case, no lines must enter (or leave) the corners A and
B The reason is that since there is no symmetry, we have no guidance
as to the direction of the lines at these corners In particular, we know
that a line leaving A will no longer arrive at B.
Example 5.8
A structure consists of metal walls, 8 cm apart, with insulating
ma-terial (k = 0.12 W/m·K) between Ribs 4 cm long protrude from one
wall every 14 cm They can be assumed to stay at the temperature ofthat wall Find the heat flux through the wall if the first wall is at 40◦Cand the one with ribs is at 0◦C Find the temperature in the middle ofthe wall, 2 cm from a rib, as well
Figure 5.23 Heat transfer through a wall with isothermal ribs.
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Solution. The flux plot for this configuration is shown in Fig.5.23
For a typical section, there are approximately 5.6 isothermal
incre-ments and 6.15 heat flow channels, so
Q = N
I k ∆T = 2(6.15)
5.6 (0.12)(40 − 0) = 10.54 W/m
where the factor of 2 accounts for the fact that there are two halves
in the section We deduce the temperature for the point of interest,
A, by a simple proportionality:
T point A = 2.1
5.6 (40 − 0) = 15 ◦C
The shape factor
A heat conduction shape factor S may be defined for steady problems
involving two isothermal surfaces as follows:
Thus far, every steady heat conduction problem we have done has taken
this form For these situations, the heat flow always equals a function of
the geometric shape of the body multiplied by k ∆T
The shape factor can be obtained analytically, numerically, or through
flux plotting For example, let us compare eqn (5.65) and eqn (5.66):
This shows S to be dimensionless in a two-dimensional problem, but in
three dimensions S has units of meters:
For a three-dimensional body, eqn (5.69) is unchanged except that the
dimensions of Q and R t differ.8
8 Recall that we noted after eqn ( 2.22) that the dimensions of R tchanged, depending
on whether or not Q was expressed in a unit-length basis.
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Figure 5.24 The shape factor for two similar bodies of
differ-ent size
The virtue of the shape factor is that it summarizes a heat conduction
solution in a given configuration Once S is known, it can be used again and again That S is nondimensional in two-dimensional configurations means that Q is independent of the size of the body Thus, in Fig.5.21, S
is always 3.07—regardless of the size of the figure—and in Example5.8, S
is 2(6.15)/5.6 = 2.196, whether or not the wall is made larger or smaller When a body’s breadth is increased so as to increase Q, its thickness in the direction of heat flow is also increased so as to decrease Q by the
same factor
Example 5.9
Calculate the shape factor for a one-quarter section of a thick cylinder
Solution. We already know R t for a thick cylinder It is given byeqn (2.22) From it we compute
Scyl= 1kRt = 2π
ln(r o/ri)
so on the case of a quarter-cylinder,
2 ln(r o/r i )
The quarter-cylinder is pictured in Fig.5.24for a radius ratio, r o /r i =
3, but for two different sizes In both cases S = 1.43 (Note that the same S is also given by the flux plot shown.)
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Figure 5.25 Heat transfer through a
thick, hollow sphere
Example 5.10
Calculate S for a thick hollow sphere, as shown in Fig.5.25
Solution. The general solution of the heat diffusion equation in
spherical coordinates for purely radial heat flow is:
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Table5.4includes a number of analytically derived shape factors foruse in calculating the heat flux in different configurations Notice thatthese results will not give local temperatures To obtain that information,one must solve the Laplace equation,∇2T = 0, by one of the methods
listed at the beginning of this section Notice, too, that this table is stricted to bodies with isothermal and insulated boundaries
re-In the two-dimensional cases, both a hot and a cold surface must bepresent in order to have a steady-state solution; if only a single hot (orcold) body is present, steady state is never reached For example, a hotisothermal cylinder in a cooler, infinite medium never reaches steadystate with that medium Likewise, in situations 5, 6, and 7 in the table,the medium far from the isothermal plane must also be at temperature
T2in order for steady state to occur; otherwise the isothermal plane andthe medium below it would behave as an unsteady, semi-infinite body Ofcourse, since no real medium is truly infinite, what this means in practice
is that steady state only occurs after the medium “at infinity” comes to
a temperature T2 Conversely, in three-dimensional situations (such as
4, 8, 12, and 13), a body can come to steady state with a surrounding
infinite or semi-infinite medium at a different temperature
Example 5.11
A spherical heat source of 6 cm in diameter is buried 30 cm below thesurface of a very large box of soil and kept at 35◦C The surface ofthe soil is kept at 21◦C If the steady heat transfer rate is 14 W, what
is the thermal conductivity of this sample of soil?
k = 14 W(35 − 21)K
1− (0.06/2) 2(0.3) 4π (0.06/2) m = 2.545 W/m·K
Readers who desire a broader catalogue of shape factors should refer
to [5.16], [5.18], or [5.19]
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2 Conduction through wall of a long
4 The boundary of a spherical hole of
radius R conducting into an infinite
medium
and2.15
5 Cylinder of radius R and length L,
transferring heat to a parallel
7 An isothermal sphere of radius R
transfers heat to an isothermal
plane; R/h < 0.8 (see item 4)
4π R
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8 An isothermal sphere of radius R,
near an insulated plane, transfers
heat to a semi-infinite medium at
9 Parallel cylinders exchange heat in
an infinite conducting medium
2R1R2
10 Same as 9, but with cylinders
widely spaced; L R1and R2
2π
cosh−1
L 2R1
+ cosh −1
L 2R2
11 Cylinder of radius R i surrounded
by eccentric cylinder of radius
12 Isothermal disc of radius R on an
otherwise insulated plane conducts
heat into a semi-infinite medium at
T ∞below it
13 Isothermal ellipsoid of semimajor
axis b and semiminor axes a
conducts heat into an infinite
medium at T ∞ ; b > a (see 4)
4π b
4
1− a2 b2tanh−14
1− a2 b2 meter [5.16]
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Figure 5.26 Resistance vanishes where
two isothermal boundaries intersect
The problem of locally vanishing resistance
Suppose that two different temperatures are specified on adjacent sides
of a square, as shown in Fig.5.26 The shape factor in this case is
S = N
I = ∞
4 = ∞ (It is futile to try and count channels beyond N 10, but it is clear that
they multiply without limit in the lower left corner.) The problem is that
we have violated our rule that isotherms cannot intersect and have
cre-ated a 1/r singularity If we actually tried to sustain such a situation,
the figure would be correct at some distance from the corner However,
where the isotherms are close to one another, they will necessarily
influ-ence and distort one another in such a way as to avoid intersecting And
S will never really be infinite, as it appears to be in the figure.
The tactic of superposition
Consider the cooling of a stubby cylinder, such as the one shown in
Fig 5.27a The cylinder is initially at T = Ti, and it is suddenly
sub-jected to a common b.c on all sides It has a length 2L and a radius r o
Finding the temperature field in this situation is inherently complicated
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It requires solving the heat conduction equation for T = fn(r , z, t) with
b.c.’s of the first, second, or third kind
However, Fig 5.27a suggests that this can somehow be viewed as acombination of an infinite cylinder and an infinite slab It turns out that
the problem can be analyzed from that point of view.
If the body is subject to uniform b.c.’s of the first, second, or thirdkind, and if it has a uniform initial temperature, then its temperatureresponse is simply the product of an infinite slab solution and an infinitecylinder solution each having the same boundary and initial conditions.For the case shown in Fig.5.27a, if the cylinder begins convective cool-
ing into a medium at temperature T ∞ at time t = 0, the dimensional
temperature response is
T (r , z, t) − T∞ =Tslab(z, t) − T∞×Tcyl(r , t) − T∞ (5.70a)
Observe that the slab has as a characteristic length L, its half thickness, while the cylinder has as its characteristic length R, its radius In dimen-
sionless form, we may write eqn (5.70a) as
Θ ≡ T (r , z, t) − T∞
T i − T∞ =
Θinf slab(ξ, Fos , Bis )
Θinf cyl(ρ, Foc , Bic)
(5.70b)For the cylindrical component of the solution,
Sec-Figure5.27b shows a point inside a one-eighth-infinite region, near thecorner This case may be regarded as the product of three semi-infinitebodies To find the temperature at this point we write
Θ ≡ T (x1, x2, x3, t) − T∞
Ti − T∞ = [Θsemi(ζ1, β)] [Θsemi(ζ2, β)] [Θsemi(ζ3, β)]
(5.71)
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be treated as the product of one-dimensional solutions
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in whichΘsemiis either the semi-infinite body solution given by eqn (5.53)when convection is present at the boundary or the solution given byeqn (5.50) when the boundary temperature itself is changed at time zero.Several other geometries can also be represented by product solu-tions Note that for of these solutions, the value ofΘ at t = 0 is one for
each factor in the product
Example 5.12
A very long 4 cm square iron rod at T i = 100 ◦C is suddenly immersed
in a coolant at T ∞ = 20 ◦ C with h = 800 W/m2K What is the ature on a line 1 cm from one side and 2 cm from the adjoining side,after 10 s?
temper-Solution. With reference to Fig 5.27c, see that the bar may betreated as the product of two slabs, each 4 cm thick We first evaluateFo1 = Fo2 = αt/L2 = (0.0000226 m2/s)(10 s) (0.04 m/2)2 = 0.565,
and Bi1 = Bi2 = hL k = 800(0.04/2)/76 = 0.2105, and we then
writeΘ
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Product solutions can also be used to determine the mean
tempera-ture, Θ, and the total heat removal, Φ, from a multidimensional object
For example, when two or three solutions (Θ1, Θ2, and perhapsΘ3) are
multiplied to obtainΘ, the corresponding mean temperature of the
mul-tidimensional object is simply the product of the one-dimensional mean
temperatures from eqn (5.40)
Θ = Θ1 (Fo1, Bi1) × Θ2(Fo2, Bi2) for two factors (5.72a)
Θ = Θ1 (Fo1, Bi1) × Θ2(Fo2, Bi2) × Θ3(Fo3, Bi3) for three factors.
(5.72b)
Since Φ = 1 − Θ, a simple calculation shows that Φ can found from Φ1,
Φ2, andΦ3as follows:
Φ = Φ1 + Φ2(1 − Φ1) for two factors (5.73a)
Φ = Φ1 + Φ2(1 − Φ1) + Φ3(1 − Φ2) (1 − Φ1) for three factors (5.73b)
Example 5.13
For the bar described in Example5.12, what is the mean temperature
after 10 s and how much heat has been lost at that time?
Solution. For the Biot and Fourier numbers given in Example5.12,
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Problems
5.1 Rework Example5.1, and replot the solution, with one change
This time, insert the thermometer at zero time, at an initial
temperature < (T i − bT ).
5.2 A body of known volume and surface area and temperature T i
is suddenly immersed in a bath whose temperature is rising
as Tbath = Ti + (T0− Ti)e t/τ Let us suppose that h is known, that τ = 10ρcV/hA, and that t is measured from the time of
immersion The Biot number of the body is small Find thetemperature response of the body Plot the response and the
bath temperature as a function of time up to t = 2τ (Do not
use Laplace transform methods except, perhaps, as a check.)
5.3 A body of known volume and surface area is immersed in
a bath whose temperature is varying sinusoidally with a
fre-quency ω about an average value The heat transfer coefficient
is known and the Biot number is small Find the temperaturevariation of the body after a long time has passed, and plot italong with the bath temperature Comment on any interestingaspects of the solution
A suggested program for solving this problem:
• Write the differential equation of response.
• To get the particular integral of the complete equation, guess that T − Tmean = C1cos ωt + C2sin ωt Substitute this in the differential equation and find C1 and C2valuesthat will make the resulting equation valid
• Write the general solution of the complete equation It
will have one unknown constant in it
• Write any initial condition you wish—the simplest one you
can think of—and use it to get rid of the constant
• Let the time be large and note which terms vanish from
the solution Throw them away
• Combine two trigonometric terms in the solution into a term involving sin(ωt − β), where β = fn(ωT ) is the
phase lag of the body temperature
5.4 A block of copper floats within a large region of well-stirred
mercury The system is initially at a uniform temperature, T i
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There is a heat transfer coefficient, h m, on the inside of the thin
metal container of the mercury and another one, hc, between
the copper block and the mercury The container is then
sud-denly subjected to a change in ambient temperature from T ito
Ts < Ti Predict the temperature response of the copper block,
neglecting the internal resistance of both the copper and the
mercury Check your result by seeing that it fits both initial
conditions and that it gives the expected behavior at t → ∞.
5.5 Sketch the electrical circuit that is analogous to the
second-order lumped capacity system treated in the context of Fig.5.5
and explain it fully
5.6 A one-inch diameter copper sphere with a thermocouple in
its center is mounted as shown in Fig.5.28 and immersed in
water that is saturated at 211◦F The figure shows the
ther-mocouple reading as a function of time during the
quench-ing process If the Biot number is small, the center
temper-ature can be interpreted as the uniform tempertemper-ature of the
sphere during the quench First draw tangents to the curve,
and graphically differentiate it Then use the resulting values
of dT /dt to construct a graph of the heat transfer coefficient
as a function of (Tsphere − Tsat) The result will give actual
values of h during boiling over the range of temperature
dif-ferences Check to see whether or not the largest value of the
Biot number is too great to permit the use of lumped-capacity
methods
5.7 A butt-welded 36-gage thermocouple is placed in a gas flow
whose temperature rises at the rate 20◦C/s The
thermocou-ple steadily records a temperature 2.4◦C below the known gas
flow temperature If ρc is 3800 kJ/m3K for the thermocouple
material, what ish on the thermocouple? [h = 1006 W/m2K.]
5.8 Check the point on Fig.5.7 at Fo = 0.2, Bi = 10, and x/L = 0
analytically
5.9 Prove that when Bi is large, eqn (5.34) reduces to eqn (5.33)
5.10 Check the point at Bi= 0.1 and Fo = 2.5 on the slab curve in
Fig.5.10analytically
... given in Example5. 12 , Trang 1425 2 Chapter 5: Transient and multidimensional heat conduction
Problems... Bi1< /small>) × Θ2< /small>(Fo2< /small>, Bi2< /small>) for two factors (5.7 2a)
Θ = ? ?1 (Fo1< /small>, Bi1< /small>)...
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Product solutions can also be