Transient

Heat Conduction

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Lumped capacitance
Spatial effects
method
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Lumped Capacitance Method

“Analysis tool for solids with negligible

temperature gradients”
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Lump?
Synonym of lump: combine, put, group, bunch,
aggregate, unite, pool, mix, blend, merge, mass,
join, fuse, conglomerate, coalesce, consolidate,
collect, throw,
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Capacitance analogy

Capacitors store Solids store

electric charge heat
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Energy balance
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Energy balance
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Thermal time constant

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Thermal time constant

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Heat transfer rate

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Validity of Lumped Capacitance

Method
Relate the temperature change in the solid to
the temperature change between surface and
fluid
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Biot Number

Biot number is the ratio of the internal resistance

of a body to heat conduction to its external
resistance to heat convection
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Conservative Characteristic Length

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Non-Conservative Characteristic
Length
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Biot Number
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Biot Number
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Biot number

Which one can we apply LCM ?

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Example (Problem 4-21)