Questions tagged [convection]
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Ventilation requirements of a closed housing of a video wall
Our company builds rather large video walls that are driven by computers next to them. In one of our current project the size of the installation is 21 55" displays side by side in portrait mode and 4 ...
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convection query
I am attempting some convection analysis for research I am doing. I was wondering someone could kindly confirm whether I am on the right track. The calculation is based up air being passed over a flat ...
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Convection Heat Transfer
I am working on a problem at the moment and would appreciate some of your expertise regarding this issue. If you see the image below, I am trying to calculate heat transfer from a fluid entering a ...
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Most effective heat transfer in a vertical pipe with small top/bottom temperature difference?
What would be most effective way to transfer heat in the following situation?
Specific conditions: A vertical cylinder or pipe, 30-100cm long, 5-10 cm in diameter, heavily thermally insulated except ...
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Calculating heat transfer in a cooling loop
Imagine a closed pipe like below, filled with a liquid. The pipe is copper. Then imagine a small point heat source of X watts applied to the outside of the pipe in the position shown. Heat warms the ...
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Characteristic dimension for combining free and forced convection?
I have a situation that I have a combination of free and forced convection over a cylinder. Remembering back from heat transfer, to combine these I use the formula
$$Nu_{\mathrm{comb}}^n = Nu_{\...
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Can I neglect kinetic energy when modeling convective heat transfer for viscous, low mach airflow? Why or why not?
I'm looking at convective heat transfer for air flow over a solid at Ma=0.2. At this speed, it is plausible to model the flow as incompressible because of small density variations in the air. ...
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Convective heat transfer coefficient in finite difference method boundary conditions
Suppose there is a cubic material with an internal heat source ($\Delta q / \Delta t =$ Constant), and is immersed in a sufficiently large amount of water. Now I would like to use finite difference ...
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How to determine if mass transfer convection is natural or forced?
I know that forced convection requires some external bulk flow, but is there an equation to determine which form of Convection is dominant? I looked around and found the Richardson number $\mathrm{Ri}=...
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Heat transfer characteristics in narrow rectangular channel
Please take a look at following figure:
System considered is a narrow rectangular channel of 2.5 mm depth (W x L is 60 mm x 150 mm). Since channel has low depth, it can be considered as mini-channel. ...
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Heat Transfer coefficient calculation for hot air flow inside rectangular duct
I am working on modeling of air-heater component. A simplified representation of system is as follows:
Cold air flow enters steel duct at one end. Inside duct is Calrod heating element shaped as ...
