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Mech 346: Heat Transfer

Chapter 3:Heat Transfer from Extended
Surfaces: Conduction-Convection Systems

J.G. Pharoah
214 – McLaughlin Hall
533-6579

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada, K7L 3N6

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E Convection
AC
RF to fluid
SU
D
TE
H EA
C onduc
tion

contact
resistance
Radiation
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dx

L W

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Additional Resource Text

• http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html

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Variable h
• Small differences in
temperature
distribution result in
large changes in Q
•The fin becomes
less effective as the
length increases
•Base gradient is
best to visualize fin
performance.

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Same Geometry,
Different k
• Flux in now
proportional to k
dT/dx Æ base
gradient misleading
in isolation
•As the conductivity
decreases, less and
less of the fin is
working
•Look at
effectiveness and
efficiency
•Careful of Bi

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•In this case,

at least,
effectiveness
is misleading
•K=1 has an
effectiveness
of over 6 and
yet it is very
wasteful.
Based on the
previous
figure a
proper design
of this fin
would be
about 15% of
this length.

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•Conductivities
below 1 (for this
geometry
convection
coefficient) are
extremely
suspect with a
1D analysis

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