MECE E3311 Heat Transfer: Homework 2

Arvind Narayanaswamy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University.

Return to Ning Gu and/or Yi Zheng (Rm. 128, Mudd Building) IN CLASS February 5, 2013. Late homeworks will not be accepted. IF YOU FIND YOURSELF SOLVING THIS HOMEWORK IN CONSULTATION WITH A COLLEAGUE YOU WILL NOT BE WELL PREPARED FOR YOUR EXAMS. You should be familiar with the questions below from one of your Calculus courses (or some other Mathematics courses you might have taken). This will give you a chance to refresh your memory. Problems 3.5, 3.6 (a and b only), 3.10 (See page 910 for thermophysical properties of fatty tissue), 3.24 from BLID 7th ed. (The TAs will upload the scanned versions of the problem online) Problem 5 In most homes, heat leakage through windows is one of the biggest contributors to the home heating bill. In this problem you will investigate two dierent scenarios involving two types of windows - single paned and double paned windows. Shown in Fig. 1 are two designs of windows commonly used. The interior of the house is at 22 o C and the outside is at 0 o C. The heat transfer coecient between the interior of the house to the interior surface of the window is 10 Wm2 K1 . That between the exterior surface of the window to the outside is 20 Wm2 K1 . The area of the window is 2 m2 . Answer the following questions: 1. Determine the interior and exterior convective resistances. 2. Consider the case of the single paned window, as shown in Fig. 1(a). What is the value of the conduction resistance through the glass pane? 3. Draw the thermal circuit for this design of the window and determine the total heat transfer rate from the interior to the exterior. 4. Now consider the case of the double paned window, as shown in Fig. 1(b). Draw the thermal circuit diagram for this design of the window. Mark clearly the value of the resistances. Determine the total heat transfer rate from the interior to the exterior. In solving this problem, you can assume that the predominant form of heat transfer through the air gap in Fig. 1(b) is conduction. Since the gap is so small, it is okay to neglect convective eects. Values of thermal conductivity: Glass: 1.3 Wm1 K1 , Air: 0.025 Wm1 K1 .

(a)Single paned window

(b)Double paned window

FIG. 1: Figures for problem 3