Incropera & DeWitt: Chpt 3

Lecture 6 p. 164-170

CEMI 321
Transport principles II:
Heat and mass transfer
 Heat Transfer:
Physical Origins and Rate Equations

At the end of this contact session, you should:

•Be familiar with heat transfer from extended surfaces.

•Be able to define and distinguish between different kinds of

fins
•Be familiar with application of heat transfer through fins
• Be familiar with fins of uniform cross-sectional area
 Heat Transfer:
Physical Origins and Rate Equations

Table: 3.3 One -dimensional , steady state solutions to the

heat equation with no generation

Table: 3.4 Temperature distribution and heat loss for fins

of uniform cross section.

Table: 3.5 Efficiency of common fin shapes

 Heat Transfer:
Physical Origins and Rate Equations

Table: 3.3 One -dimensional , steady state solutions to the

heat equation with no generation
 Heat Transfer:
Physical Origins and Rate Equations

Table: 3.4 Temperature distribution and heat loss

for fins of uniform cross section.
Class Example
 xA = 0.15 m
kA = 70 W/m.K
T(xA ) = T(xB )
T∞= 20 ºC
Tb = 100 ºC kB = ?

xB = 0.075 m

Assumptions:
• Steady state conditions
• Infinite long fins with uniform cross-sectional area
• Uniform convection heat transfer coefficient
• Constant properties

Temperature distribution for infinite long fins:

Rod A Rod B
For the positions prescribed T(xA) = T(xB):

Substituting m:
 Fin performance Section 3.6.3

Fin effectiveness, εf:

ratio of the fin heat transfer rate to the heat transfer rate that would exist
without the fin.

fin cross-sectional area at the base

Example
For the infinite fin approximation

In any rational design

εf ≥ 2 to justify use of fins
Fins
 Fin performance in terms of thermal resistance
Thermal resistance due to convection at
fin

exposed base

Fin efficiency, ηf fin’s energy loss in relation to the area of the fin, found
in table 3.5

𝑞𝑓
𝜂𝑓 =
𝑞𝑓
𝑞max
Example h 𝐴 𝑓 𝜃𝑏

For an adiabatic tip

Eq.3.92
Fins
 Special cases
• Heat transfer from straight fin with active tip may be accurately
predicted by adiabatic tip results with a corrected fin length
rectangular fin Lc = L +(t/2)
pin fin Lc = L + (D/4)
Negligible errors with approximation if : (ht/k) or (hD/2k) < 0.0625

• If w>>t then P = 2w
Eq.3.95

Define profile area Ap = Lct

***End of Section 3.6.3

Fins
Heat Transfer:
Physical Origins and Rate Equations
Table: 3.5 Efficiency of common fin shapes
End – Thank you