CODE No.

:10BT60303

SREE VIDYANIKETHAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution, Affiliated to JNTUA, Anantapur)

III B.Tech II Semester (SVEC10) Supplementary Examinations December - 2014

HEAT TRANSFER
[ Mechanical Engineering ]
Time: 3 hours

Max. Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

1.

a) Define the Fourier Law of Heat Conduction along with mathematical expression and list out the
assumptions.
b) List out the various mechanisms of heat transfer.

2.

a) What do you mean by critical thickness of insulation? Show that it is given by k i ha where k i is
thermal conductivity of insulation and ha is the heat transfer coefficient.
b) A stainless steel tube with an inner diameter 7.6mm and outer diameter 8mm is heated with an
electric current, connecting the tube directly into an electric circuit. All the heat evolved in the
wall of the tube is transferred from the tube through its inner surface. Calculate the volumetric
rate of heat generation and the temperature drop across the wall of the tube, if the latter carries a
current of 250 Amps. The specific resistance of steel () = 0.85mm2/m. The thermal
conductivity of steel(K) = 18.6W/mC.

3.

a) Define Biot number and explain its significance.

b) An aluminum alloy plate of 4mm thick at 200C is suddenly quenched into liquid nitrogen which
is at -183C. Find the time required for the plate to reach the temperature of -70C. The plate
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dimensions are 40 cm 40 cm, Cp = 0.8kJ/kgK, = 3000kg/m3. Take h= 5000 W/m K.

4.

Explain the various parameters used in Forced Convection. Using the dimensional analysis obtain
an expression for Nusselt Number in terms of Reynolds and Prandtl Numbers.

5.

a) Define the terms:

6.

a) What is Condensation? Distinguish between the mechanisms of Film wise condensation and
Drop wise condensation.
b) Calculate the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient for water boiling on a horizontal tube
whose wall temperature is maintained at 10C above the saturation temperature of the water.
Assume that the water is at a pressure of 10 bar. Determine the change in value of the heat
transfer coefficient when i) the temperature difference is increased to 20C at the pressure of 10
bar and ii) the pressure is raised to 20 bar and Te=10C.

7.

a) Define NTU.
b) Derive an expression for LMTD of counter flow heat exchanger.

8.

a) State Planck's law of monochromatic radiation. Explain its significance.

b) Determine the rate of heat loss from a steel tube of outside diameter 70 mm and 3 m long at a
temperature of 227C if the tube is located within a square brick conduit of 0.3 m side and at

i) boundary layer thickness ii) displacement thickness

iii) momentum thickness
iv) energy thickness.
b) Air at 40C and 1.03 bar flows over a flat plate 50cm 30cm maintained at 60C
at a speed of 4m/sec. Find i) the mass flowing through the boundary.
ii) drag force exerted on the plate.

27C. Take (steel) = 0.79 and (brick) = 0.93.