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This document contains 15 questions related to heat transfer topics including conduction, convection, radiation, heat exchangers, and cooling techniques. The questions cover deriving expressions for temperature distribution, explaining concepts like the lumped capacitance method, conduction shape factor, radiation, LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods for heat exchanger analysis, Kirchhoff's law, natural convection, and calculating temperatures and heat transfer rates in various conductive and convective systems. Thermal circuits are constructed and analyzed for some questions. Cooling of turbine blades, combustion chambers, and radioactive waste containers are also discussed.

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This document contains 15 questions related to heat transfer topics including conduction, convection, radiation, heat exchangers, and cooling techniques. The questions cover deriving expressions for temperature distribution, explaining concepts like the lumped capacitance method, conduction shape factor, radiation, LMTD and effectiveness-NTU methods for heat exchanger analysis, Kirchhoff's law, natural convection, and calculating temperatures and heat transfer rates in various conductive and convective systems. Thermal circuits are constructed and analyzed for some questions. Cooling of turbine blades, combustion chambers, and radioactive waste containers are also discussed.

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1) Derive the expression for temperature distribution in a) Plane wall b) Cylindrical wall

2) Explain Lumped capacitance method in detail


3) Explain the parameters used for the performance analysis of Fin.
4) A very long rod of 5-mm diameter and uniform thermal conductivity k= 25W/m K is
subjected to a heat treatment process. The center, 30-mm-long portion of the rod within
the induction heating coil experiences uniform volumetric heat generation of 7.5 × 106
W/m3. The unheated portions of the rod, which protrude from the heating coil on either
side, experience convection with the ambient air at T= 20 C and h=10W/m2 K. Assume
that there is no convection from the surface of the rod within the coil.
(a) Calculate the steady-state temperature To of the rod at the midpoint of the heated
portion in the coil.
(b) Calculate the temperature of the rod Tb at the edge of the heated portion.

5) Explain conduction shape factor in detail


6) Explain radiation in detail.
7) Explain following method of heat Exchanger analysis
a) LMTD method of analysis used When inlet and outlet temperature is known
b) Effectiveness – NTU method of analysis
8) Explain kirchoffs law in detail
9) Explain Natural convection in deatail.
10) Engine oil is heated by flowing through a circular tube of diameter D=50mm and length
L=25m and whose surface is maintained at 150°C. If the flow rate and inlet temperature
of the oil are 0.5 kg/s and 20°C, what is the outlet temperature Tm,o? What is the total
heat transfer rate q for the tube?
11) A horizontal, opaque surface at a steady-state temperature of 77°C is exposed to an
airflow having a free stream temperature of 27°C with a convection heat transfer

coefficient of 38 W/m2 K. The emissive power of the surface is 638 W/m2, the

irradiation is 1280 W/m2, and the reflectivity is 0.50. Determine the absorptivity of the
surface. Determine the net radiation heat transfer rate for this surface. Is this heat
transfer to the surface or from the surface? Determine the combined heat transfer rate
for the surface. Is this heat transfer to the surface or from the surface?
12) Explain a) Turbine Blade cooling b) Combustion chamber cooling
13) Electric current flows through a long rod generating thermal energy at a uniform
volumetric rate of q ̇ 2 × 106 W/m3. The rod is concentric with a hollow ceramic
cylinder, creating an enclosure that is filled with air. The thermal resistance per unit
length due to radiation between the enclosure surfaces is \\
(a) Construct a thermal circuit that can be used to calculate the surface temperature of
the rod, Tr. Label all temperatures, heat rates, and thermal resistances, and evaluate each
thermal resistance.
(b) Calculate the surface temperature of the rod for the prescribed conditions

14) Radioactive wastes are temporarily stored in a spherical container, the center of which
is buried a distance of 10 m below the earth’s surface. The outside diameter of the
container is 2 m, and 500 W of heat are released as a result of the radioactive decay
process. If the soil surface temperature is 20°C, what is the outside surface temperature
of the container under steady-state conditions?
15) A pin fin of 10-mm diameter dissipates 30 W by forced convection to air in cross flow
with a Reynolds number of 4000. If the diameter of the fin is doubled and all other
conditions remain the same, estimate the fin heat rate. Assume the pin to be infinitely
long.

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