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Problem 1.19 of Bergman.
Air at 40°C flows over a long, 25-mm-diameter cylinder with an embedded electrical heater. In a
series of tests, measurements were made of the power per unit length, P', required to maintain the
cylinder surface temperature at 300°C for different free stream velocities V of the air.
Instructor: Nam Sun Wang

i 0 .. 4 air velocity (m/s) power (W/m)

Vi P' i

1 450
2 658
4 983
8 1507
12 1963

a) determine convection coefficient h at each velocity

Power P P' . L h . A. ΔT where ΔT 300 40 K A π. D. L D 0.025 m
P' i
P' h . ( π. D ) . ΔT hi hi
( π. D ) . ΔT
22.037
32.223
48.138
73.799
in W/m 2 ⋅K
96.13
b) Assuming the dependence of the convection coefficient on the velocity to be of the form h=CV n ,
determine the parameters C and n from the results of part (a).
n
h C. V ln( h ) ln( C ) n . ln( V ) Regress ln(h) versus ln(V); intercept is ln(C); slope is n.
lnC intercept ln( V ) , ln( h ) C exp( lnC ) C = 21.626 W/m2 ⋅K
n slope ln( V ) , ln( h ) n = 0.593 dimensionless
n
h regress( V ) C. V

v 0 .. 12

100

hi
50
h regress( v )

0
0 5 10 15
Vi , v
Data
Regression