Heat and Mass Transfer

Application
Boiling water
Heating water to a boil in a pot is an every-day chore. This
circumstance uses thermal resistance. The equation you should use
T 1 T 2 . The resistance would be calculated from the
would be Q=
R Total
surface area and contact conductance. In order to find the temperature
to set your stove to, you would need to set T2 to 100 Celsius.

Insulation on a pipe
Insulation on pipes is the same type of problem as the boiling water,
and its just as important to ensure that pipes dont freeze and burst in
T 1 T 2 would be the equation used, but one of the
the winter. Q=
R Total
ln r 2 /r 1
resistances should be calculated as
.
2 Lk

Defrosting a car windshield

This is another application of daily heat transfer problem that occurs
regularly in the winter. To calculate problems like this, you would have
to treat it as an external forced convection problem. Some equations to
VL
hL

A s (T sT ) , =
use would be Q=h
, and Nu
. With these
v
k
equations you would have to use some property tables, but once you
have your properties its pretty much plug-and-chug.