HEAT TRANSFER

Transient Heat Conduction

TRANSIENT HEAT CONDUCTION IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS

Using superposition method called product solution, the transient temperature

charts and solutions can be used to solve for the 2-D and 3-D transient heat
conduction problems.

Solution in multi-dimensional geometries can be expressed as the product of

the solutions for the 1-D geometries.

The temperature in a
short cylinder exposed to
convection from all
surfaces varies in both
the radial and axial
directions.

Solution for the 2-D short cylinder of height a and radius ro is equal to
the product of solutions for the 1-D plane wall of thickness a and the long
cylinder of radius ro.

A short cylinder of radius ro

and height a is the
intersection of a long
cylinder of radius ro and a
plane wall of thickness a.

A long solid bar of rectangular profile

a b is the intersection of two plane
walls of thicknesses a and b.

Example 4-8

Solution

Solution
Temperature at the center of plane wall:

Using chart:
0.8

Solution
Temperature at the center of cylinder:

Using chart:
0.5

Solution

Example
Consider a cubic block with dimensions shown is initially at 20C and is made of
granite (k = 2.5 W/mK and = 1.15 x 10-6 m2/s). Now the block is exposed to hot
gasses at 500C in a furnace on all of the surfaces with heat transfer coefficient of
40 W/m2K. Determine the temperature at the center of the block after 10 min.
hL (40 W/m2 .C)(0.025 m)
Bi

0.400
k
(2.5 W/m.C)

1 0.5932 and A1 1.0580

t
L2

(1.15 10 6 m 2 /s)(10 min 60 s/min)

(0.025 m) 2

1.104 0.2

(0,0,0, t )block (0, t ) wall 3

T (0,0,0, t ) T

1 2
A1e

Ti T

T ( 0,0,0, t ) 500

20 500
T ( 0,0,0, t )

( 0.5932) 2 (1.104)
(
1
.
0580
)
e

0.369

323C

Exercise
Study Examples 4-1 to 4-5.

Solve Concept Questions 4-1C to 4-4C,

4-8C to 4-10C, 4-28C to 4-30C, 4-32C, 435C, 4-82C to 4-85C.
Solve Problems 4-14, 4-17, 4-22, 4-40,
4-42, 4-54, 4-60 and 4-66.