Extended Surfaces

Examples
 Example 1
Engine cylinder of a motorcycle
 To find
• The increase in heat transfer due to fins

• qt is the total heat transfer with fins

• qwo is the total heat transfer without fins
• Remember to find qwo, we will simply find heat
transfer from cylinder by simply using Newton’s law
of cooling i.e. qconv = hAs (Tb-T∞)
First lets find heat transfer from cylinder without fins

qwo = hAs,wo (Tb-T∞)

As,wo = 2𝜋𝑟1 𝐻

Tb-T∞ =𝜃𝑏
Now lets find total heat transfer from engine
cylinder with fins
• Now, in total heat transfer equation we have
all the values except for fin efficency 𝜂𝑓

• To find fin efficiency we use figure 3.20

• For fin efficiency we use the following figure
Further improvement of engines
heat transfer
 Example 2
Preventing Circuit Board Surface from
Overheating
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