Author: haroonkhan

  • Heat Transfer Through Hollow Cylinder

    Consider a cylinder of internal radius r1 and external radius r2 as shown in Figure 7.7. Let the inside and outside temperatures be t1 and t2, respectively. Consider the heat flow through a small element of thickness dr at any radius r, where the temperature is t. Let the thermal conductivity of the material be k, temperature of fluid flow inside the cylinder be tf1, heat transfer coefficient be hf1, temperature…

  • Combined Heat Transfer

    Plane Walls with Convection on Sides There are many cases in practice when different materials are constructed in layers to form a composite wall. This wall may be composed of plaster layer, brick layer, tiles layer, etc. as shown in Figure 7.3. In Figure 7.3 there are three layers A, B, C, of thickness LA, LB, and LC, respectively. The thermal…

  • Stefan–Boltzmann Law of Thermal Radiation

    The law states that the rate of radiation heat transfer per unit area from a black surface is directly proportional to fourth power of the absolute temperature of the surface and is given by, where Ts is absolute temperature in K; and σ is proportionality constant and called as Stefan–Boltzman constant equal to 5.67 × 10− 8 W/m2K4. The heat…

  • Stefan–Boltzmann Law of Thermal Radiation

    The law states that the rate of radiation heat transfer per unit area from a black surface is directly proportional to fourth power of the absolute temperature of the surface and is given by, where Ts is absolute temperature in K; and σ is proportionality constant and called as Stefan–Boltzman constant equal to 5.67 × 10− 8 W/m2K4. The heat…

  • Radiation

    All matter continuously radiates electromagnetic radiation unless its temperature is absolute zero. It is observed that the higher the temperature then the greater amount of energy is radiated. If two bodies at different temperatures are so placed that the radiation from each body is intercepted by the other, then the body at the lower temperature…

  • Convection

    Convection is the term used for heat transfer mechanism which takes place in a fluid because of a combination of conduction due to the molecular interactions and energy transport due to the macroscopic motion of the fluid itself. In the above definition, the motion of the fluid is essential otherwise the heat transfer mechanism becomes…

  • Conduction

    Conduction is the heat transfer from one part of a substance to another part of the same substance, or from one substance to another in physical contact with it, without appreciable displacement of the molecules forming the substance. On the elementary particle level, the conduction is visualized as the exchange of kinetic energy between the…

  • INTRODUCTION

    This deals with different modes of heat transfer which are usually classified as conduction, convection and radiation. From the second law of thermodynamics, we know that the heat flows whenever there is existence of temperature difference or temperature gradient. Heat is a form of energy which is transferred from one body to another body at…

  • ENGINE PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS

    There are several parameters to indicate the performance of an IC engine, for example, indicated thermal efficiency (ηith), brake thermal efficiency (ηbth), mechanical efficiency (ηmech), volumetric efficiency (ηv), relative efficiency of efficiency ratio (ηrel), mean effective pressure (Pm), mean piston speed (Sp), specific power output (Ps), specific fuel consumption (sfc), and air fuel ratio (A/F).…

  • DUAL CYCLE

    For same compression ratio, Otto cycle is more efficient but delivers less power than the diesel cycle. Therefore, in dual cycle partly heat is added at constant volume and partly at constant pressure as shown in Figure 6.17. Figure 6.17 ρ−V and T−s Diagrams for Dual Cycle   Example 6.6: An air standard dual cycle has a compression ratio of 18 and…