Assigment 2 – Heat Transfer

Academic year 2016/2017 (Semester 2)

1. A 5-cm-diameter copper sphere is initially at a uniform temperature of 200◦C. It is suddenly

exposed to an environment at 20 oC having a heat-transfer coefficient h=28 W/m2.oC.
Calculate the time necessary for the sphere temperature to reach 90 oC. Is there any
temperature distribution within the sphere? Explain !

2. A stainless steel cylinder (18% Cr, 8% Ni) is heated to a uniform temperature of 200 oC and
then allowed to cool in an environment where the air temperature is maintained constant at
30 oC. The convection heat-transfer coefficient may be taken as 200 W/m2.oC. The cylinder
has a diameter of 10 cm
a. If the length of the cylinder is 15 cm. Calculate the temperature of the geometric center
b. length
3. Fused quartz transmits 90 percent of the incident thermal radiation between 0.2 and 4 μm.
Suppose a certain heat source is viewed through a quartz window. What heat flux in watts
will be transmitted through the material from blackbody radiation sources at (a) 800 oC; (b)
550 oC; (c) 250 oC; and (d ) 70 oC?

4. Two parallel planes 90 by 60 cm are separated by a distance of 60 cm. One plane is

maintained at a temperature of 800 K and has an emissivity of 0.6. The other plane is
insulated. The planes are placed in a large room that is maintained at 290 K. Calculate the
temperature of the insulated plane and the energy lost by the heated plane.