Review Questions for Conduction

1. What is meant by the term one-dimensional when applied to

conduction problems?
2. What is meant by thermal resistance?
3. Why is the one-dimensional heat flow assumption important
in the analysis of fins?
4. Define fin efficiency & fin effectiveness.
5. Differentiate long fin, adiabatic and convective fin tip
problems.
6. What is meant by thermal contact resistance? Upon what
parameters does this resistance depend?
7. What is meant by a lumped capacity? What are the physical
assumptions necessary for a lumped-capacity unsteady-
state analysis to apply?
8. Define the Biot and Fourier numbers.

ME3122 Heat Transfer 1