Assignment – Convective heat and Mass Transfer (1)

1. In a particular application involving airflow over a heated surface (k = 0.0263 W/m⋅K), the
boundary layer temperature distribution may be approximated as

where y is the distance normal to the surface and the Prandtl number Pr = 0.7. Using = 400
K, Ts = 300 K, and = 5000 m-1, calculate the heat flux to the surface, at y=0?

Hints: use Fourier’s law to calculate the heat flux to the surface.

2. The heat transfer rate per unit width (normal to the page) from a longitudinal section, x2 - x1,
is expressed as = ℎ (x2 - x1)( Ts - ), where ℎ is the average coefficient for the section
of length (x2 - x1). Consider laminar flow over an isothermal flat-plate at temperature Ts. The
spatial variation of the local convection coefficient is of the form ℎ = /
, where C is a
constant.

(a) Using the convection rate equation dq’= hx dx( Ts - ), derive an expression for ℎ in
terms of C, x1, and x2.
(b) Derive an expression for ℎ in terms of x1, x2, and the average coefficients ℎ and ℎ ,
corresponding to lengths x1 and x2, respectively.

3. Experiments to determine the local convection heat transfer coefficient for uniform flow
normal to a heated circular disk have yielded a radial Nusselt number distribution of the form

where both n and a are positive. The Nusselt

number at the stagnation point is correlated
in terms of the Reynolds (ReD=VD/ν) and
Prandtl numbers as follows:

Obtain an expression for the average Nusselt number, = ℎ / corresponding to heat

transfer from an isothermal disk.
4. To assess the efficacy of different liquids for cooling an object of given size and shape by
forced convection, it is convenient to introduce a figure of merit, FF, which combines the
influence of all pertinent fluid properties on the convection coefficient. If the Nusselt number
is governed by an expression of the form, = obtain the corresponding
relationship between FF and the fluid properties. For representative values of m = 0.80 and
n = 0.33, calculate values of FF for air (k =0.026 W/m.K, ν = 1.6 *10-5 m2/s, Pr = 0.71), water
(k = 0.600 W/m.K, ν = 10-6 m2/s, Pr = 5.0), and a dielectric liquid (k = 0.064 W/m. K, ν =
10-6 m2/s, Pr =25). What fluid is the most effective cooling agent?

5. Species A is evaporating from a flat surface into species B. Assume that the concentration
profile for species A in the concentration boundary layer is of the form CA(y) = Dy2 + Ey +
F, where D, E, and F are constants at any x location and y is measured along a normal from
the surface. Develop an expression for the mass transfer convection coefficient hm in terms
of these constants, the concentration of A in the free stream , and the mass diffusivity
DAB. Write an expression for the molar flux of mass transfer by convection for species A.