ME 436: Heat Transfer

Due Date: Oct. 30th, 2013

Homework 4
Show all work to get full credit. Attach any codes that you developed to help solve the problems. Make sure that the codes are well-commented. For problems requiring iterations, show complete hand calculations for the rst step, before referring to your attached code.

Flow Over a Flat Plate

1. In a chemical processing plant, glycerin ows over a 1 m long heated at plate at freestream conditions V = 3 m/s and T = 10 C. If the plate is held at 30 C, determine the average heat transfer per unit width, assuming that the critical Reynolds number, Rec = 500,000. Repeat the analysis for liquid ammonia. See attached tables at the end of the document for thermophysical properties of liquid ammonia. 2. Air at atmospheric pressure and a temperature of 25 C is in parallel ow at a velocity of 10 m/s over a 1.5 m long at plate that is heated with a uniform heat ux of 1700 W/m2 . Assume Rec = 500,000. (a) Calculate the plate surface temperature, Ts (L) and the local convection coecient hx (L) at the training edge x = L . (b) Calculate the average temperature of the plate surface, Ts (c) Using Excel/Matlab/etc., plot the variation of the surface temperature and the local convection coecient with distance on the same graph. Explain the key features of these distributions.

Flow Over Cylinders and Spheres

1. Estimate the heat transfer from a 40 W incandescent bulb at 127 C bulb to a 27 C airstream moving at 0.3 m/s. Approximate the bulb as a 50 mm diameter sphere. What percentage of the power is lost by convection? 2. Helium at 1 atm and 325 K ows across a 3 mm diameter cylinder that is heated to 425 K with a ow velocity, V = 9 m/s. Calculate the heat transfer per unit length of wire. See attached tables for thermophysical properties.

ME 436: Heat Transfer

Due Date: Oct. 30th, 2013

3. Tube bundles in a uid cross ow are a canonical heat exchanger conguration used for industrial purposes such as steam generation. Consider air at 3.5 MPa and 38 C owing across a tube bank consisting of 400 tubes of 1.25 cm OD arranged in a staggered manner 20 rows high; SL = 3.75 cm and ST = 2.5 cm. The incoming ow velocity is 9 m/s and the tube wall temperatures are maintained at a constant 20 C by a condensing vapor on the inside of the tubes. The length of the tubes is 1.5 m. Estimate the exit air temperature as it leaves the tube bank. Use Eq.(1), which can be found in the text and evaluate the properties at the free stream conditions, except for Prs . N uD =
0.36 C1 Rem D,max P r

Pr P rs

0.25

(1)

Internal Pipe Flows

1. Engine oil ows inside a 25 mm inner diameter (ID), 5.0 m long tube with a mass ow rate, m = 0.2 kg/s. The tube is heated at a constant surface temperature, Ts = 75 C and the inlet uid temperature is Tm,i = 25 C. Determine the exit uid temperature, Tm,o . 2. Compare the heat transfer from a 2 inch outer diameter (OD) rod with atmospheric air owing parallel to it (external ow) with that from a 2 inch inner diameter (ID) tube with air owing through it (internal ow). In both cases the air velocity is 30 m/s and the the air temperature is 16 C. The heated portion of the rod and the tube are each 1 m long, and both are maintained at 40 C. The heated section of the tube is located suciently downstream such that fully developed ow occurs. Also assume that tube can be treated as a at plate for the external ow analysis.

ME 436: Heat Transfer

Due Date: Oct. 30th, 2013

Thermophysical Properties

Since the book has limited thermophysical data for certain substances, the ones needed for this assignment are provided below:

Figure 1: Thermophysical properties of liquid ammonia (NH3 )

Figure 2: Thermophysical properties of helium