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MEC4408 - (12-2pm) - Practical Test 7 - Week 9
MEC4408 - (12-2pm) - Practical Test 7 - Week 9
TEST DURATION: 30 min writing time + 10 min of scanning, collating and uploading to
Moodle
This is an open book (in its broadest sense) test. To complete the question, you may need to
refer to property tables, which can be found in the prescribed text book and are also available
through the MEC4408 Moodle page, as well as mathematical tables and any other resources
like Matlab, Mathematica, etc. that you choose to use.
Name the PDF file: <Your student ID number>.pdf . Upload this SINGLE PDF FILE in
portrait format to Moodle before the due time. If you encounter technical difficulties, contact
the lecturer or demonstrators immediately. Late submissions without special considerations in
effect will receive no marks.
3-4 2 1 0
Concise statement of the problem, known
variables and parameters and what must
be found (0.5 mark)
Question
Air at -10 °C flows over a smooth, sharp-edged, almost-flat, aerodynamic surface at 240 km/hr. The
surface is at 10 °C and its length is 2m. Turbulent transition begins at Re l=140000 and ends at
Reu=315000. Find:
(e) δ and h at xl
(f) Discuss how the heat transfer coefficient varies with distance in your problem and comment on the
physical origin of the results.
Note: Relevant heat transfer correlations can be accessed from the summary table in chapter 7.