Tecnlogy Institute of Aguascalientes

Career: Mechanical Engineering.

Class: Heat Transfer.
Student Name: Fabian Alexandro Castorena Amaton.
Subject: Brief Summary.
Teacher Name: Ing. Israel de Jesús Gómez Carmona.
Semester: 6.
Schedule: 18:00-19:00.
Delivery Date: 01 of June of the 2021.
Introduction.
The following work is a summary of chapter 3 of frank Incopera's book on the transfer of
equilibrium heat of the cylinder and the sphere to summarize said chapter as small as
possible.

Developing.
3.3.1 The cylinder
For steady state conditions without heat generation, the appropriate way of the heat
equation. The physical meaning of this result becomes evident if we also consider the
timely manner of Fourerier's law.

It is feasible to decide the distribution of temperatures in the cylinder by solving equation

and implementing the appropriate boundary conditions “k” is constant, equation is
integrated 2 times to obtain the general solution.

Keep in mind that the temperature distribution associated with radial conduction through
a cylindrical wall is logarithmic, not linear, as it is for the flat wall under the same
conditions.

Now consider the composite system of Figure 3.7. If we remember how we treat the flat
composite wall and leaving aside the thermal resistances of interfacial contact, the heat
transfer is expressed as:

In particular, even when the conduction resistance is increased by adding an insulator,

the convection resistance decreases due to the increase in the outer surface area. This
is why there can be a thickness of insulation that minimizes heat loss by maximizing total
resistance to heat transfer.

As in this situation, the total resistance reduces and, therefore, the heat transfer increases
by adding insulation. The trend is desirable for the flow of electrical current through a wire,
since adding electrical insulation would aid in the transfer of heat dissipated in the wire to
the surroundings.

The reality of a critical radius requires the heat transfer sector to change in the transfer
direction, as for radial conduction in a cylinder or sphere.

3.3.2 The sphere

Now consider using the alternative method to analyze conduction in the hollow sphere in
For the differential volume of control in the figure, the conservation of energy requires that
for one-dimensional steady-state conditions without internal heat generation.

Remembering that the thermal resistance is defined as the difference in temperatures

divided between the heat transfer, we obtain:
Spherical composites can be treated in the same way as composite walls and cylinders,
where appropriate forms of total strength and overall heat transfer coefficient can be
determined.

Ending.
The above was a small summary of how are the calculations of heat transfer on surfaces
such as spheres and cylinders seen in chapter 3 of Frank incopera's book "Heat
Transfer".

References.

Incopera, F. I. (2001). Steady-state one-dimensional conduction [Libro electrónico].

En John Wiley & Sons Inc; Edición Pap/Cdr (Ed.), Fundamentals of Heat and Mass
Transfer (5th Edition & Introduction to Heat Transfer, 4th Edition, pp. 105–107).
John Wiley & Sons Inc; Edición Pap/Cdr (1 julio 2001).
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