EML 5152 (Spring 2021) – Homework 3

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31 March (Wednesday) midnight

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The required Tables are given at the end of the Homework (Pages 6-9). Please take a look
at those before you start this Homework.

Homework Question 1:

A short brass cylinder (ρ = 8530 kg/m3, cp = 0.389 kJ/kg·K, k = 110 W/m·K) of diameter 4 cm and
height 20 cm is initially at a uniform temperature of 150° C. The cylinder is placed in atmospheric
air at 20° C, where heat transfer takes place by convection with a heat transfer coefficient of 100
W/m2·K from all the surfaces. Calculate the temperature at a radial location of 1 cm from the center
the cylinder and 5 cm from the top surface - 5 min after the start of the cooling.

Refer to the lectures on 03/01 and 03/03 to get some relevant information. List the references
you used to solve the problem.

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Homework Question 2:

A short brass cylinder (ρ = 8530 kg/m3, cp = 0.389 kJ/kg·K, k = 110 W/m·K) of diameter 4 cm and
height 20 cm is initially at a uniform temperature of 150° C. The side walls of the cylinder is placed
in atmospheric air at 20° C, where heat transfer takes place by convection with a heat transfer
coefficient of 100 W/m2·K. The top and bottom surface of the cylinder is kept at a constant
temperature of 40° C. Calculate the temperature at a radial location of 1 cm from the center the
cylinder and 5 cm from the top surface - 5 min after the start of the cooling.

Refer to the lectures on 03/01 and 03/03 to get some relevant information. List the references
you used to solve the problem.

Homework Question 3:

Consider a cubic block whose sides are 5 cm long. The block is initially at 20° C and is made of
granite (k = 2.5 W/m·K and α = 1.1 × 10−6 m2/s). The block is exposed to hot gases at 200° C in a
furnace on all of the surfaces with a heat transfer coefficient of 50 W/m2·K. Determine the center
temperature of the block after 20 minutes.

Refer to the lectures on 03/01 and 03/03 to get some relevant information. List the references
you used to solve the problem.

Homework Question 4:

A 15-m-long and 10-cm-diameter hot-water pipe of a district heating system is buried in the soil
90 cm below the ground surface. The outer surface temperature of the pipe is 75° C. Taking the
surface temperature of the earth to be 10° C and the thermal conductivity of the soil at that location
to be 0.8 W/m·K, determine the rate of heat loss from the pipe.

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Refer to the lectures on 03/03 and 03/08 to get some relevant information. List the references you
used to solve the problem.

Homework Question 5:

Hot- and cold-water pipes 10 m long run parallel to each other in a thick concrete layer. The
diameters of both pipes are 5 cm, and the distance between the centerlines of the pipes is 45 cm.
The surface temperatures of the hot and cold pipes are 75° C and 20° C, respectively. Taking the
thermal conductivity of the concrete to be k = 0.5 W/m·K, determine the rate of heat transfer
between the pipes.

Refer to the lectures on 03/03 and 03/08 to get some relevant information. List the references you
used to solve the problem.

Homework Question 6:

Consider a large plane wall of thickness L = 0.1 m, thermal conductivity k = 2 W/m·K, and surface
area A = 2.5 m2. The left side of the wall is maintained at a constant temperature of 90°C, while
the right side loses heat by convection to the surrounding air at T∞ = 20°C with a heat transfer
coefficient of h = 15 W/m2·K. Assuming steady one-dimensional heat transfer, show how the
solution matrix will look like with a finite volume approach using: (a) 5 volumes; and (b) 10
volumes. Plot the calculated temperatures at the center of the control volumes. Compare the heat
transfer at the left wall using 5 and 10 volumes.

You can use any software you are comfortable with to solve for the temperatures in this homework
question. Show your working steps clearly.

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Refer to the lectures on 03/08 and 03/10 to get some relevant information. List the references you
used to solve the problem.

Homework Question 7:

Consider a large plane wall of thickness L = 1 m, thermal conductivity k = 2 W/m·K, ρ = 1 kg/m3,

cp = 0.5 J/kg·K and surface area A = 2 m2. The left side of the wall is maintained at a constant
temperature of 90°C, while the right side is maintained at a constant temperature of 30°C. The
temperature distribution is uniform initially (time t =0s) at 20°C. Assuming unsteady one-
dimensional heat transfer and with 10 control volumes in the solution domain, show how the
solution at the center of the control volumes will look like in the first 10 time steps using an explicit
finite volume approach with: (a) Δt = 0.01s; and (b) Δt = 0.001s. Discuss the solution you see in
the two cases.

You can use any software you are comfortable with to solve for the temperatures in this homework
question. Show your working steps clearly.

Refer to the lectures on 03/08 and 03/10 to get some relevant information. List the references you
used to solve the problem.

Homework Question 8:

Air at 1 atm and 1000C flows over the top surface of a 2 m x 2 m plate. The airstream velocity is
25 m/s. The plate is maintained at a constant surface temperature is 250C. Determine:
(a) Is the flow laminar or turbulent over the plate?
(b) Use an appropriate correlation to find the value of hx at the middle of the plate.
(c) Use an appropriate correlation to find the average value of h for the flow over the plate.
(d) Find the net rate of heat transfer due to convection.

Refer to the lectures on 03/10 and 03/17 to get some relevant information. Properties of air is given
in Page 8 of this Homework. List the references you used to solve the problem.
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Homework Question 9:

Consider a forced convection flow over a cylinder. The surface of the cylinder is at 250 0C. The
ambient air temperature is at 200C. The diameter of the cylinder is 0.01 m. The length of the
cylinder is 0.1 m. Compare the values of heat transfer coefficient (h) and the rate of forced
convective heat transfer from the cylinder for air flow velocities of 2 m/s, 4 m/s and 6 m/s using
Hilpert’s, Zhukauskas and Churchill & Bernstein correlations. The correlations are given in lecture
notes of 03/17 in Pages 5, 7 and 8.

Refer to the lectures on 03/17 to get the relevant information. Properties of air is given in Page 8
of this Homework. List the references you used to solve the problem.

Homework Question 10:

A 1 m long vertical plate is at 800C. The air surrounding it is at 200C at 1 atm. The velocity of air
over the plate is 1 m/s.
(a) What is the Grashof Number for the flow?
(b) What is the Reynolds Number for the flow?
(c) Is it a natural or forced or mixed convection flow?
(d) What is the Nusselt Number for the flow shown below?

Refer to the lectures on 03/10 and 03/17 to get some relevant information. Properties of air is given
in Page 8 of this Homework. Natural convection correlations are given in Page 9 of this
Homework. List the references you used to solve the problem.

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Empirical correlations for the average Nusselt number for natural convection over surfaces

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