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Cooling capacity of sealed aluminum electronics enclosure
The temperature of your heat sink depends on the total power, and the ambient temperature, and the thermal resistance from the outside of the enclosure to the "air"
The thermal resistance of ...
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Importance of mass flow rate on the overall heat transfer coefficient
Relation between heat transfer coefficient and mass flow rate could be easily related only in laminar flow, which will basically not occur in correctly designed heat exchanger. Heat transfer is ...
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How long a spiral copper tube would need to be in a monotube boiler in order to achieve 0.02 kg of steam per second?
I'm not going to answer your question, because no wall thickness or length of tube will meet your needs.
Coiled copper is for cooling something, not for making steam. You can cool hot water by ...
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What happens to insulation?
Heat transfer is the process of energy transfer due to a temperature difference between objects or materials. There are three primary modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.
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Calculating R-value from temperature differential
I think you could theoretically measure a U or R value this way, but there are so many unknowns that it's not useful.
If you have the internal and external glass temperature, glass area, and the heat ...
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