Heat Transfer (GNEG356)

Homework Assignment – 2

Name: Deadline: March 25, 2019

Convection Heat Transfer

Total Marks: 25

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Homework Assignment – 2

Weather variations at Dehradun

I got the weather data of Dehradun today from a weather station website. I am showing you the snippet of what I saw on
the web:

As it shows here, the average temperature on Apr. 6 is 33 degree C. However, take a close look. It says that Real-feel@ 38
degree C, which means that it actually feels like 38 degree C outside. Why is it so? Justify with reasoning and mathematics.
Look up the web for Dehradun average temperature for January 6 instead. How must it have ‘really felt’ that day?
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Homework Assignment – 2

A thin, flat plate that is 0.2 m x 0.2 m on a side with rough top and bottom surfaces is placed in a wind
tunnel so that its surfaces are parallel to an atmospheric airstream having a velocity of 30 m/s. The air is
at a temperature of 𝑇∞ = 20℃while the plate is maintained at 𝑇𝑠 = 80℃. The plate is rotated 45 about its
center point, as shown in the schematic. Airflows over the top and bottom surfaces of the plate, and
measurement of the heat transfer rate is 2000 W. What is the drag force on the plate?
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Homework Assignment – 2

Experimental results for heat transfer over a flat plate with an extremely rough surface were found to be
correlated by an expression of the form

where 𝑁𝑢 𝑥 is the local value of the Nusselt number at a position x measured from the leading edge of
the plate. Obtain an expression for the ratio of the average heat transfer coefficient ̅̅̅
ℎ𝑥 to the local
coefficient ℎ𝑥 .
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Homework Assignment – 2

An electric air heater consists of a horizontal array of thin metal strips that are each 10 mm long in the direction
of an airstream that is in parallel flow over the top of the strips. Each strip is 0.2 m wide, and 25 strips are arranged
side by side, forming a continuous and smooth surface over which the air flows at 2 m/s. During operation, each
strip is maintained at 500°C and the air is at 25°C.

(a) What is the rate of convection heat transfer from the first strip? The fifth strip? The tenth strip? All the strips?

(b) For air velocities of 2, 5, and 10 m/s, determine the convection heat rates for all the locations of part
(a).Represent your results in tabular or bar graph form.

(c) Repeat part (b), but under conditions for which the flow is fully turbulent over the entire array of strips.
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Homework Assignment – 2

Consider cross flow of gas X over an object having a characteristic length of L = 0.1 m. For a Reynolds
number of 1 x 104 , the average heat transfer coefficient is 25 W/𝑚2 K. The same object is then
impregnated with liquid Y and subjected to the same flow conditions. Given the following
thermophysical properties, what is the average convection mass transfer coefficient?