CH2014: HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER!

Assignment #3!
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Submission deadline: 20 March 2020, 20:03:20 hr IST!
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1. Air at 90 deg C and 1 atm flows over a flat plate at a velocity of 30 m/s. How thick is the
boundary layer at a distance of 25 cm from the leading edge of the plate?!
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2. Cool water at 15 deg C is flowing at 2 m/s on the other side of the plate of Problem #1. If the
plate is 2.5 m long and 1.2 m wide and is made of aluminium sheet of 0.8 mm thickness, find
the total heat transfer from the air side to the water side. !
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3. Water flows at an average velocity of 1.2 m/s through the gap between two parallel plates
separated by 0.01 m. If the velocity profile is uniform at entry, after what distance does the flow
become fully developed? Will the flow become turbulent by then?!
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4. A cylindrical block of aluminium with a height-to-diameter ratio of 1.5, weighing 5.5 kg and
initially at a temperature of 290 deg C is suddenly immersed in a 1000-litre cubical well-stirred
water tank at 25 deg C. Estimate the time it takes for the aluminium block to cool down to 90
deg C if the external heat transfer coefficient is (a) 50 W/m2K, and (b) 5000 W/m2K.!
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5. You wish to prepare French fries for your friends. Your grandmother tells you that for the fries
to be well-cooked, the centre of the French fry needs to be maintained at 120 deg C or more
for six seconds when it is deep-fried in an oil bath at a temperature of 300 deg C. You plan to
take the French fries directly from fridge (maintained at 7 deg C) and dip them into the oil bath.
How long should you keep them in the oil bath for them to be properly cooked? If it takes 3 s of
exposure to temperature in excess of 200 deg C for the top layer to be baked to brown crust,
then would your French fry would have been just right or under-fried or over-fried?!
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! Take the thermal conductivity of potato to be 0.1 W/mK and its specific heat to be 0.5 kJ/!
! kgK. Take the potato chip to have dimensions of 6 mm x 6 mm x 50 mm. Model it as a !
! cylinder of the same height and volume.!
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6. Having failed in your attempt at making French fries that are palatable, you then attempt to
make potato chips. You carefully cut 30 mm dia, 2 mm potato slices and try to get them crisp
and brown by exposing the surface to temperatures to more than 200 deg C for 3 s. Would the
interior be just right or under- or over-cooked? !
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Density of aluminium = 2700 kg/m3; water = 1000 kg/m3; air = 1.1 kg/m3; potato = 1180 kg/m3!
Kinematic viscosity of air = 0.000015 m2/s; water = 0.000001 m2/s; Cp of Al = 0.9 kJ/kg K;!
thermal conductivity of Al = 200 W/mK